Unable to unzip PowerCLI on linux due to backslashes

[julianwood]

I am downloading and wanting to extract PowerCLI to use on Linux.

Using latest version https://vdc-download.vmware.com/vmwb-repository/dcr-public/02830330-d306-4111-9360-be16afb1d284/c7b9...

It seems like the PowerCLI .zip file contains backslashes rather then forward slashes which causes unzip to error.

# unzip VMware-PowerCLI-13.0.0-20829139.zip 
warning: VMware-PowerCLI-13.0.0-20829139.zip appears to use backslashes as path separators

the unzip then fails

Apparently this is a previous bug in Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive https://github.com/PowerShell/Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive/pull/62 which should bre resolved

Anyone have any workarounds using linux unzip or even better, can someone on the PowerCLI team amend the archive creation process to resolve trhis.

[LucD]

You could try to use 7zip to fix the issue

7z rn VMware-PowerCLI-13.0.0-20829139.zip $(7z l VMware-PowerCLI-13.0.0-20829139.zip | grep '\\' | awk '{ print $6, gensub(/\\/, "/", "g", $6); }' | paste -s)