Azure DevOps uzip as a deploy task

Question

does anyone know how to uznip a file as a part of the deployment pipeline?

At the moment deploy finishes with a zip archive inside of fronted/download/myfiles.zip.

I want to add a task which will take this zip file and extract it into e.g. frontend/download/archive/...

Thank you

Answer 1

Microsoft has provided a documentation for this, but i would like to share some info related to yaml snippet

steps:
 - task: ExtractFiles@1
  inputs:
    archiveFilePatterns: 'QtBinaries.rar'
    destinationFolder: '$(Build.SourcesDirectory)\bin'
    cleanDestinationFolder: false
- task: ExtractFiles@1
  inputs:
    archiveFilePatterns: 'AzureNeededDlls.rar'
    destinationFolder: '$(Build.SourcesDirectory)\bin'
    cleanDestinationFolder: false

Here i am trying to extract the two rar files with names('QtBinaries.rar, AzureNeededDlls.rar'), we can do it as one task also it depends on need.

Answer 2

There is an Extract Archive task provided by Microsoft that you can use to extract archived files.

After you added it as a task that runs on your deployment group to you can configure it so that it does what you need. Make sure to set Archive file patterns and Destination folder correctly.