Cyber Security

Use PowerShell to create compressed ZIP files

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With PowerShell 5.0 two new commands are introduced: Compress-Archive and Expand- Archive. The commands compress and decompress data.

Get-Command -Noun Archive

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Compress-Archive compresses data.

Compress-Archive -Path C:\Temp\* -DestinationPath C:\Temp\Compressed.zip

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The ZIP File was generated.

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Expand-Archive decompresses the files.

Expand-Archive -Path C:\Temp\Compressed.zip -DestinationPath C:\Temp\

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Further thoughts

If you can´t do without WinZip, I recommend my article Package Management in PowerShell (Chocolatey)

Categories: Cyber Security, PowerShell, Windows 10, Windows Server

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Published by Patrick Gruenauer

Microsoft MVP on PowerShell [2018-2021], IT-Trainer, IT-Consultant, MCSE: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure, Cisco Certified Academy Instructor.

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