How to Zip a file in Powershell

How to Zip files in Powershell, this article explains how one can zip the Powershell output, files, or logs and make them as archive somewhere for future use. When there are large files to zip or an application is generating log files every day or you want to archive Powershell reports that are not needed, in another case you want to compress the files and reduce the space then we can do with Powershell, here are simple code performs the Zip function. Compress-Archive This Powershell command creates compressed zipped files and we need to give the source files path to compress and a destination path to archive them. Compress-Archive Parameters. [-Path] <String[]> [-DestinationPath] <String> [-CompressionLevel <String>] [-PassThru] [-WhatIf] [-Confirm] [<CommonParameters>] Example 1

Compress-Archive `
    -LiteralPath "C:\temp\NewFolder\New Text Document.txt", "C:\temp\apps" `
    -CompressionLevel Optimal `
    -DestinationPath "C:\raja\Draft.Zip"

The above script creates a zip file, It takes files from C:\temp\NewFolder\New Text Document.txt and C:\temp\apps and creates a Draft.zip in C:\raja\Draft.Zip, see the screenshot below. Example 2

Compress-Archive `
    -Path C:\temp\apps `
    -CompressionLevel Fastest `
    -DestinationPath C:\raja\simple.zip

Let’s create a function and make it useful whenever we need it.

function Zip-Files
    {
    param (
    [string]$ZipFileName,
    [string]$SourceDirectory 

    )
       Add-Type -Assembly System.IO.Compression.FileSystem
       $Compress = [System.IO.Compression.CompressionLevel]::Optimal
       [System.IO.Compression.ZipFile]::CreateFromDirectory($SourceDirectory,
            $ZipFileName, $Compress, $false)
    }

The variable used in this script is. $ZipFileName = You need to specify the path where you want to create zip file and a name $SourceDirectory = You need to specify the path which file or folder you want to zip.

Zip-Files -SourceDirectory C:\temp\apps -ZipFileName C:\raja\test.zip

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