Feature Request: Expand-Archive to support Uri ,tarballs and strip

[mikeTWC1984]

Summary

I'd think Expand-Archive is one of the heavily used cmdlets in various installation scripts. But currently you still need to do a lot of unnecessary things like:

• save temp archive file
• remove temp archive
• [in some cases] move files from the root catalog to some other folder
• Also, it doesn't work with tarballs (big deal for linux)

I think we should make Expand-Archive to pull archive directly from url avoiding writing/removing stuff on your disc. I guess that is not that hard to build some custom cmdlet, but I believe this should come out of the box, so installation script can rely on it.

Example:

I need nodejs binaries in my project. I want to put this in "node" subfolder (but not in something like node-v10.16.3-linux-x64 ). In bash this could be achived this way:

mkdir ./node
wget -qO- https://nodejs.org/dist/v10.16.3/node-v10.16.3-linux-x64.tar.xz | tar --transform 's/^dbt2-0.37.50.3/dbt2/' -xvz -C ./node --strip=1

Desired powershell functionality:

$url = https://nodejs.org/dist/v10.16.3/node-v10.16.3-linux-x64.tar.gz
Expand-Archive -Uri $url -type targz -Destination ./node -Strip -Force -Verbose

I think many other core cmdlets with -Path parameter would benefit from such thing too. Maybe we can make Path to understand paths with http:// prefix.

[am11]

Maybe if Expand-Archive support pipeline, we can get the desired result: "extract archive without first saving to filesystem". Inspired by Unix-y tools:

URL=https://github.com/dotnet/docs/archive/master.tar.gz

# wget
wget -qO- $URL | tar -xvz > /dev/null

# curl
curl -sSL $URL | tar -xvz > /dev/null

it would be great if we could do something like:

(Invoke-WebRequest $URL).Content | Expand-Archive -DestinationPath docs-master

or better yet, streaming:

Invoke-WebRequest -EmitContentToStdOut $URL| Expand-Archive -DestinationPath docs-master

[michael-hawker]

It'd also be great to tell it to ignore the file extension check too. Sometimes I have a file that's a zip file, but not actually labeled ".zip" so I have to rename it first before sending it to Expand-Archive.

[ThomasNieto]

@StevenBucher98 can we move this issue to the PowerShell/Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive repository?