Welcome to Java Unzip File Example. In the last post, we learned how to zip file and directory in java, here we will unzip the same zip file created from directory to another output directory.
Java Unzip File
To unzip a zip file, we need to read the zip file with ZipInputStream and then read all the ZipEntry one by one. Then use FileOutputStream to write them to file system. We also need to create the output directory if it doesn’t exists and any nested directories present in the zip file. Here is the java unzip file program that unzips the earlier created tmp.zip to output directory.
package com.journaldev.files;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.zip.ZipEntry;
import java.util.zip.ZipInputStream;
public class UnzipFiles {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String zipFilePath = "/Users/pankaj/tmp.zip";
String destDir = "/Users/pankaj/output";
unzip(zipFilePath, destDir);
}
private static void unzip(String zipFilePath, String destDir) {
File dir = new File(destDir);
// create output directory if it doesn't exist
if(!dir.exists()) dir.mkdirs();
FileInputStream fis;
//buffer for read and write data to file
byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
try {
fis = new FileInputStream(zipFilePath);
ZipInputStream zis = new ZipInputStream(fis);
ZipEntry ze = zis.getNextEntry();
while(ze != null){
String fileName = ze.getName();
File newFile = new File(destDir + File.separator + fileName);
System.out.println("Unzipping to "+newFile.getAbsolutePath());
//create directories for sub directories in zip
new File(newFile.getParent()).mkdirs();
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(newFile);
int len;
while ((len = zis.read(buffer)) > 0) {
fos.write(buffer, 0, len);
}
fos.close();
//close this ZipEntry
zis.closeEntry();
ze = zis.getNextEntry();
}
//close last ZipEntry
zis.closeEntry();
zis.close();
fis.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
Once the program finishes, we have all the zip file contents in the output folder with same directory hierarchy. Output of the above program is:
Unzipping to /Users/pankaj/output/.DS_Store
Unzipping to /Users/pankaj/output/data/data.dat
Unzipping to /Users/pankaj/output/data/data.xml
Unzipping to /Users/pankaj/output/data/xmls/project.xml
Unzipping to /Users/pankaj/output/data/xmls/web.xml
Unzipping to /Users/pankaj/output/data.Xml
Unzipping to /Users/pankaj/output/DB.xml
Unzipping to /Users/pankaj/output/item.XML
Unzipping to /Users/pankaj/output/item.xsd
Unzipping to /Users/pankaj/output/ms/data.txt
Unzipping to /Users/pankaj/output/ms/project.doc
That’s all about java unzip file example.
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Hi Pankaj Nice code !! How could i do this with two zip paths (i.e two zip files present inside the same directory but different files names) and two different destination directories? So basically i would like my java program to unzip C:\users\1.zip to C:\output\ & C:\users\2.zip to C:\output_2\ . Please advise. Thanks
- Grant
Very helpful code… Thanks…Thanks alot. Now I need a code to merge the multiple videos into one video (the videos belongs to one folder.) using java the videos are consist of .webm extension. Thanks,
- sainath
Perfect. A cut/paste example that works perfectly well.
- Payments
Pankaj, Its really good stuff, i can able to extract the files Tahnks
- Arun
Its really nice work to extract the files. code simplifies the tasks.
- Arun
But this code will not work in the case of extracting any file in external SDcard. Check once and post an updated one.
- Anonymous
This does not handle zip folders that contain sub directories. You need to differentiate between a file and directory in the code
- rw
This code is not working
- anshu
yes bro same happend with me.
- pankaj
can any one give me 100% generated test case of junit of above code
- Nirdesh Kumar
How to unzip folder having file names with special characters for e.g. test.zip having file with name fndStaticLookups_finder=LookupTypeFinder%3BBindLookupType%3DACTIVITY_SHOWTIMEAS_CD.json
- Ashok
The code will fail when a ZipEntry is only a directory. You must make a check of it. if(ze.isDirectory()){…}
- Yeung
Hi Pankaj, The code is working well if zip not contains any file in it if the zip contains any file then its throws file not found exception. Thanks Ajaya
- Ajaya
Hiii, Can we unzip .7z format? i am not getting any reasult for unzip .7z file format
- Painter Priyank
did you find any solution?
- samra
This code as-is does not work with sub directories.
- Manoj Kidambi
This code is insecure and vulnerable to the Zip Slip vulnerability. https://snyk.io/research/zip-slip-vulnerability
- Florent Guillaume
This is the code I’m using which is working fine with sub directories. No external libraries used. package main.java; import java.io.BufferedInputStream; import java.io.File; import java.io.FileOutputStream; import java.io.IOException; import java.util.Enumeration; import java.util.zip.ZipEntry; import java.util.zip.ZipFile; public class UnzipFile { public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException { String fileZip = “src/main/resources/abcd/abc.zip”; File destDir = new File(“src/main/resources/abcd”); try (ZipFile file = new ZipFile(fileZip)) { Enumeration zipEntries = file.entries(); while (zipEntries.hasMoreElements()) { ZipEntry zipEntry = zipEntries.nextElement(); if (zipEntry.isDirectory()) { String subDir = destDir + “\\” + zipEntry.getName(); File as = new File(subDir); as.mkdirs(); } else { // Create new json file File newFile = new File(destDir, zipEntry.getName()); String extractedDirectoryPath = destDir.getCanonicalPath(); String extractedFilePath = newFile.getCanonicalPath(); if (!extractedFilePath.startsWith(extractedDirectoryPath + File.separator)) { throw new IOException("Entry is outside of the target dir: " + zipEntry.getName()); } BufferedInputStream inputStream = new BufferedInputStream(file.getInputStream(zipEntry)); try (FileOutputStream outputStream = new FileOutputStream(newFile)) { while (inputStream.available() > 0) { outputStream.write(inputStream.read()); } } } } } } }
- Chamlini
thanks your code really solved the sub directories issue. Also i was getting some issue with enumeration. Solution- Enumeration zipEntries = file.entries();
- Shiwang Kumar