Node JS extracting the zip file in winows not working - node.js

Question

I am trying to unzip the password protected zip file in window terminal. But I am getting error as
"Error: 'zip' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file."
var spawn = require('child_process').spawn;
let filePath = "XXX/XX";
let password= "abc";
extractZipWithPassword(filePath, password)
function extractZipWithPassword(filePath, password) {
console.log("Inside here:::::::::::::::::::", filePath);
var dir = spawn('zip',['-P', password, '-j', '-', filePath], {shell:true});
dir.stderr.on('data', (data) => {
console.log('Error: '+data);
return filePath;
})
dir.on('close', (code) => {
console.log("On closing:::::::::::::::")
return filePath;
});
}

Answer 1

zip is not a Powershell built-in construct. You'll want to make use of the Expand-Archive cmdlet.
Expand-Archive -LiteralPath C:\Archives\Draft.Zip -DestinationPath C:\Reference
However, Expand-Archive doesn't work with password protected archives. In my cases though, I've gone with using 7zip to extract these (note that you must first make sure your current working directory is the destination unpack directory):
spawn('7z', ['x', filePath, '-p' + password], { shell: true, cwd: destinationUnpackPath })
A few things to explain above:
-pPASSWORD will have PASSWORD replaced with the actual password. So if your password is "12345", the argument passed would be -p12345.
Note that I added cwd to the spawn options, to make sure the current working directory is set appropriately. 7z x will extract the archive to the cwd.
destinationUnpackPath is not defined in your code above but this should be set to the destination extraction path