On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 17:25, Fisher, John <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am dependent on a vendor who think PGP is hard to do. ACK!
> So, I was trying to use Perl to process the winzip password protected file. I
> am unfamiliar with the Expect module and looking out on CPAN it I am not sure
> what you were suggesting. It looks like it spawns a processes. Are you saying
> I should test the zipped file and if it requires a password spawn off a
> process to do some winzip command line process? "Puppet String"?
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It sounds like you are on a Win32 machine. If so, download 7-zip* and
install it. You should then be able to decompress the files like
this:
my $file = "foo.zip";
my $password = "drowssap";
system("c:/program files/7-zip/7z.exe", "x", "-p", $password, $file) == 0
or die "an error occurred while trying to unzip $file";
Warning, this is untested code, you may need to change things slightly
to get them to work.
* http://www.7-zip.org/download.html
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