open self-extracting zip AND provide the password

[Donald]

Hi all,

I'm writing an automation that includes unzipping a self-excecutable zip file which has password protection. I need to start the decompression and then feed in the password.

I need to use java or perl to do this. The only things I've found so far use tcl/tk or assembler (for Pet's sake).

I'd appreciate any ideas or links.

 

[tanderso]

Use the Perl "system" command to execute the file at the command line.
Sincerely,

Tom Anderson
CEO, Order amid Chaos, Inc.

http://www.oac-design.com

 

[Donald]

Thanks for your reply.

The execution of the self-extracting zip file is not the problem. The password cannot be fed to the file. I haven't been able to find an argument for it (ie. selfExtractFile.zip -pw=password) and I don't know how to communicate to the process once it's started.

 

[tanderso]

I think you can do it with gzip on linux.
Sincerely,

Tom Anderson
CEO, Order amid Chaos, Inc.

http://www.oac-design.com