Powershell - Compress-Archive and Expand-Archive to create and extract ZIP archives
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Windows Powershell, via the Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive module, allows us to create, update and extract ZIP archives.
The Compress-Archive command archive in ZIP format only, does not support files larger than 2GB and does not support hidden files.
Version 2 of the Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive module has obviously been abandoned :
https://github.com/PowerShell/Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive
# Compress a folder and its contents by specifying the compression level (NoCompression, Fastest, Optimal).# Optimal is the defaultCompress-Archive -Path c:\test -DestinationPath c:\test.zip -CompressionLevel Fastest
# Compress the contents of a folderCompress-Archive -Path c:\test\* -DestinationPath c:\test.zip
# Compress the contents of a folder and overwrite a previous archive (-Force)Compress-Archive -Path c:\test\* -DestinationPath c:\test.zip -Force
# Compress certain filesCompress-Archive -Path c:\test\doc1.txt,c:\test\*.docx -DestinationPath c:\test.zip
# Compress certain files using Get-ChildItem to filterGet-ChildItem -Path c:\test -file | Compress-Archive -DestinationPath c:\test.zip
# Update the contents of the archive (newer files replace older ones in the archive)Compress-Archive -Path c:\test -DestinationPath c:\test.zip -Update
# Uncompress an archive in a folder with the name of the archive in the current folderExpand-Archive -Path c:\test.zip
# Unzip an archive into a folder specifying the location (if the folder does not exist, it will be created)Expand-Archive -Path c:\test.zip -DestinationPath c:\test2
# Unzip an archive into a folder with the archive name in the current folder, overwriting existing filesExpand-Archive -Path c:\test.zip -Force
# Display the contents of an archive[System.IO.Compression.ZipFile]::OpenRead(‘c:\test.zip’).Entries.fullname
# To take hidden files into account, you can pass directly through .net, but the file will lose its archive attribute[System.IO.Compression.ZipFile]::CreateFromDirectory(‘c:\test’,‘c:\test.zip’)Related links
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