pkzipc extract to subfolder

I was trying to extract all files from a zip into a subfolder like this:

pkzipc -ext -dir \\shared\archive\140325.zip * tempfiles

But no matter what I did it kept extracting the files into the current folder. My command looked similar to the sample in the official PDF online documentation (except they used ".." as the output folder).

It turns out you have make the subfolder first, otherwise pkzipc just silently ignores the output folder name you specify and puts them in the current folder.

So the sample used ".." which always exists and therefore always works. The weirdly bad example wasted 15 minutes of my time because I thought I had the syntax subtly wrong.

Orthogonal Programming