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Extracting Nupkg files using command line

Firstly, I do not want to use Visual Studio at all when dealing with the certain .nupkg files.

I know there is a tool called NuGet Package Explorer and this can export nupkg files to a certain file location using a gui, but I'm looking to setup a MSBuild task to run and unpack about 50 .nupkg files, using the command line.

My question is, is there a tool you can use via the command line which will unpack .nupkg files to a specified file location?

Solution

  • 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.