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Reputation: 15039

Azure Pipeline - YAML how to unzip a downloaded secure file and then execute an exe

I have an Azure Pipeline using a YAML that has one task that downloads a zipped secure file:

- task: DownloadSecureFile@1
  displayName: Download Testpipelineapp
  name: testPipelineapp
  inputs:
    secureFile: TestPipelineapp.zip

The download happens perfectly, but then I need to extract the contents because inside is an .EXE that I need to execute.

Any clue on how can I do this? I'm new to YAML and Azure Devops.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 6469

Answers (2)

jessehouwing
jessehouwing

Reputation: 114581

There are a couple of options, depending on what's installed in your agent.

The hosted agent comes with a recent enough version of PowerShell to be able to use the Expand-Archive PowerShell function. And it has 7z installed, so you could call that too.

- script: |
      7z x path-to-downloaded-file.zip  path-to-extract-to
      path-to-extract-to\myexecutable.exe

# PowerShell
# Run a PowerShell script on Linux, macOS, or Windows
- task: PowerShell@2
  inputs:
    targetType: inline
    #filePath: # Required when targetType == FilePath
    #arguments: # Optional
    script: |
         Expand-archive -file path-to-downloaded-file.zip -Destinationpath path-to-extract-to
         & path-to-extract-to\myexecutable.exe
    #errorActionPreference: 'stop' # Optional. Options: default, stop, continue, silentlyContinue
    #warningPreference: 'default' # Optional. Options: default, stop, continue, silentlyContinue
    #informationPreference: 'default' # Optional. Options: default, stop, continue, silentlyContinue
    #verbosePreference: 'default' # Optional. Options: default, stop, continue, silentlyContinue
    #debugPreference: 'default' # Optional. Options: default, stop, continue, silentlyContinue
    #failOnStderr: false # Optional
    #ignoreLASTEXITCODE: false # Optional
    pwsh: true
    #workingDirectory: # Optional

Then there's the built-in task:

# Extract files
# Extract a variety of archive and compression files such as .7z, .rar, .tar.gz, and .zip
- task: ExtractFiles@1
  inputs:
    #archiveFilePatterns: '**/*.zip' 
    destinationFolder: 
    #cleanDestinationFolder: true 
    #overwriteExistingFiles: false
    #pathToSevenZipTool:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/tasks/utility/extract-files?view=azure-devops

Upvotes: 0

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Reputation: 15039

I found how:

- task: ExtractFiles@1
  inputs:
    archiveFilePatterns: '$(Agent.TempDirectory)/TestPipelineapp.zip'
    cleanDestinationFolder: false
    overwriteExistingFiles: true

Then in order to execute the .EXE file I had to add a CMD script task

- task: CmdLine@2
  inputs:
    script: TestPipelineapp.exe

Upvotes: 2

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