Extracting Nupkg files using command line

Question

NuPKG files are just zip files, so anything that can process a zip file should be able to process a nupkg file, i.e, 7zip.

You can also use the NuGet command line, by specifying a local host as part of an install. For example if your package is stored in the current directory

nuget install MyPackage -Source %cd% -OutputDirectory packages

will unpack it into the target directory.

Rename it to .zip, then extract it.

did the same thing like this:

clear
cd PACKAGE_DIRECTORY

function Expand-ZIPFile($file, $destination)
{
    $shell = New-Object -ComObject Shell.Application
    $zip = $shell.NameSpace($file)
    foreach($item in $zip.items())
    {
        $shell.Namespace($destination).copyhere($item)
    }
}

Dir *.nupkg | rename-item -newname {  $_.name  -replace ".nupkg",".zip"  }

Expand-ZIPFile "Package.1.0.0.zip" “DESTINATION_PATH”

This worked for me:

Rename-Item -Path A_Package.nupkg -NewName A_Package.zip

Expand-Archive -Path A_Package.zip -DestinationPath C:\Reference