How to unzip a file using the command line?

If you already have Java Development Kit on your PC and the bin directory is in your path (in most cases), you can use the command line:

jar xf test.zip

or if not in your path:

C:\Java\jdk1.6.0_03\bin>jar xf test.zip

Complete set of options for the jar tool available here.

Examples:

Extract jar file
    jar x[v]f jarfile [inputfiles] [-Joption] 
    jar x[v] [inputfiles] [-Joption]

You could use :

http://membrane.com/synapse/library/pkunzip.html

or

7zip: http://www.7-zip.org/download.html

Free byte zip: http://www.freebyte.com/fbzip/

or infozip: http://infozip.sourceforge.net/

7-Zip, it's open source, free and supports a wide range of formats.

7z.exe x myarchive.zip

Originally ZIP files were created with MS-DOS command line software from PKWare, the two programs were PKZIP.EXE and PKUNZIP.EXE. I think you can still download PKUNZIP at the PKWare site here:

http://www.pkware.com/software-pkzip/dos-compression

The actual command line could look something like this:

C:\>pkunzip c:\myzipfile.zip c:\extracttothisfolder\

Grab an executable from info-zip.

Info-ZIP supports hardware from microcomputers all the way up to Cray supercomputers, running on almost all versions of Unix, VMS, OS/2, Windows 9x/NT/etc. (a.k.a. Win32), Windows 3.x, Windows CE, MS-DOS, AmigaDOS, Atari TOS, Acorn RISC OS, BeOS, Mac OS, SMS/QDOS, MVS and OS/390 OE, VM/CMS, FlexOS, Tandem NSK and Human68K (Japanese). There is also some (old) support for LynxOS, TOPS-20, AOS/VS and Novell NLMs. Shared libraries (DLLs) are available for Unix, OS/2, Win32 and Win16, and graphical interfaces are available for Win32, Win16, WinCE and Mac OS.