[chef] Windows system standard program for unzip-ing archives?

[Brad Knowles < >]

Folks,

So, I've been trying to write some cross-platform Chef code for a customer, 
and one of the things we need to do is to take a zip archive of a package 
written in Java, and deploy that.  The zip archive is completely 
self-contained, we don't need to install it as an OS-level package or 
anything -- we just need to un-zip it into an appropriate directory 
structure, and then run the appropriate included .sh or .BAT files.

This worked fine on RHEL5.  But I was astonished to find that there is 
apparently no standard tool to handle this kind of thing on Win2k3 or Win2k8.

Am I missing something obvious here?  I mean, I can install a package easily 
enough, but this is a ... sensitive ... customer, and there might have to be 
a lengthy delay in getting that approved through the change control board.


Any and all ideas or thoughts would be appreciated.  Thanks!

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