How to create a zip archive with PowerShell?

Question

Is it possible to create a zip archive using PowerShell?

Answer 1

Edit two - This code is an ugly, ugly kluge from olden days. You do not want it.

This compresses the contents of .\in to .\out.zip with System.IO.Packaging.ZipPackage following the example here

$zipArchive = $pwd.path + "\out.zip"
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::Load("WindowsBase,Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35")
$ZipPackage=[System.IO.Packaging.ZipPackage]::Open($zipArchive,
  [System.IO.FileMode]"OpenOrCreate", [System.IO.FileAccess]"ReadWrite")
$in = gci .\in | select -expand fullName
[array]$files = $in -replace "C:","" -replace "\\","/"
ForEach ($file In $files)
{
   $partName=New-Object System.Uri($file, [System.UriKind]"Relative")
   $part=$ZipPackage.CreatePart($partName, "application/zip",
      [System.IO.Packaging.CompressionOption]"Maximum")
   $bytes=[System.IO.File]::ReadAllBytes($file)
   $stream=$part.GetStream()
   $stream.Write($bytes, 0, $bytes.Length)
   $stream.Close()
}
$ZipPackage.Close()

Edit: Unreliable for larger files, maybe >10mb, YMMV. Something to do with appdomain evidence and isolated storage. The friendlier .NET 4.5 approach works nicely from PS v3, but wanted more memory in my case. To use .NET 4 from PS v2, config files need an unsupported tweak.

Answer 2

Complete command-line Commands in Windows for Compressing and Extracting Directory is as follows:

• For Compression:

  powershell.exe -nologo -noprofile -command "& { Add-Type -A 'System.IO.Compression.FileSystem'; [IO.Compression.ZipFile]::CreateFromDirectory('C:\Indus','C:\Indus.zip'); }"
  

• For Extracting:

  powershell.exe -nologo -noprofile -command "& { Add-Type -A 'System.IO.Compression.FileSystem';[IO.Compression.ZipFile]::ExtractToDirectory('C:\Indus.zip','C:\Indus'); }"
  

Answer 3

PowerShell v5.0 adds Compress-Archive and Expand-Archive cmdlets. The linked pages have full examples, but the gist of it is:

# Create a zip file with the contents of C:\Stuff\
Compress-Archive -Path C:\Stuff -DestinationPath archive.zip

# Add more files to the zip file
# (Existing files in the zip file with the same name are replaced)
Compress-Archive -Path C:\OtherStuff\*.txt -Update -DestinationPath archive.zip

# Extract the zip file to C:\Destination\
Expand-Archive -Path archive.zip -DestinationPath C:\Destination

Answer 4

A pure PowerShell alternative that works with PowerShell 3 and .NET 4.5 (if you can use it):

function ZipFiles( $zipfilename, $sourcedir )
{
   Add-Type -Assembly System.IO.Compression.FileSystem
   $compressionLevel = [System.IO.Compression.CompressionLevel]::Optimal
   [System.IO.Compression.ZipFile]::CreateFromDirectory($sourcedir,
        $zipfilename, $compressionLevel, $false)
}

Just pass in the full path to the zip archive you would like to create and the full path to the directory containing the files you would like to zip.

Answer 5

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 6

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

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