How to create a zip archive with PowerShell?

Question

Is it possible to create a zip archive using PowerShell?

Thank you.

Answer 1

Here's one example of how you could do this.

Answer 2

Not out of the box but you can use SharpZipLib with PowerShell

Answer 3

If you head on over to CodePlex and grab the PowerShell Community Extensions, you can use their write-zip cmdlet.

Answer 4

This is really obscure but works. 7za.exe is standalone version of 7zip and is available with install package.

# get files to be send
$logFiles = Get-ChildItem C:\Logging\*.* -Include *.log | where {$_.Name -match $yesterday} 

foreach ($logFile in $logFiles)
{
    Write-Host ("Processing " + $logFile.FullName)

    # compress file
    & ./7za.exe a -mmt=off ($logFile.FullName + ".7z") $logFile.FullName

}

Answer 5

For compression, I would use a standard library (7-zip is good like Michal suggests).

If you install 7-zip, the installed directory will contain 7z.exe which is a console application.
You can invoke it directly and use any compression option you want.

If you wish to engage with the DLL, that should also be possible.
7-zip is freeware and open source.

Answer 6

What about System.IO.Packaging.ZipPackage? Requires .NET framework version >= 3.0.