![]() ![]() Now with PowerShell 5.0 the Compress-Archive and Expand-Archive cmdlets make quick work of these simple tasks. In the past compressing files and creating archive files in Windows by command line has been more difficult than it needed to be. Note that the installation will require a system reboot. PowerShell 5.0 was recently released for Windows Server 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, and 2012 R2, so you can manually install it there as well to make use of Compress-Archive and Expand-Archive cmdlets. In this example, we unzip all contents from the test.zip file on the desktop into the testing directory on the desktop. PS C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop> Expand-Archive -LiteralPath C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\test.zip -DestinationPathC:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\testing zip file to a specified directory like so. To do this you’ll first need to expand the content with the Expand-Archive cmdlet. While compressing content has been fun, at some point you may wish to actually get at the data and use it. To resolve the problem I simply had the log files rotate at 800mb instead and now they compress correctly. I first noticed this when trying to archive 2gb log files, however it never completed successfully. Anything lower than 1000mb seems to complete without any problem. If you try to compress a file larger than approximately 1050mb it will appear to process indefinitely and never complete. Strange BugĪs of March 2016 I have observed what appears to be a bug with Compress-Archive in the current build of PowerShell 5.0. zip archive will be the same size as the original contents. Specifying -NoCompression on the other hand will not use any compression and the. By default it will make use of -Optimal which is generally fairly decent, however you can optionally change to -Fastest which will be quicker but the end result will typically be larger and use more disk space. ![]() This can be adjusted with the -CompressionLevel flag. There’s always a trade off between the level of compression and the time it takes to perform the compression, as a higher level of compression requires more system resources to process which will take longer. We can optionally remove -U if we want to add these files to a new. Note that -LiteralPath has been changed to -Path, as this is needed to make use of wildcards within the path, which is what we are doing here with “*”. This will add everything within the testing folder to the existing test.zip file on the desktop. PS C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop> Compress-Archive -U -Path C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\testing\* -DestinationPath C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\test It’s not just individual files that we can add, we can also archive an entire folder into our test.zip file as shown below. PS C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop> Compress-Archive -U -LiteralPath C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\test.txt -DestinationPath C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\test Archive an entire folder to a. If the file does not yet exist within the. zip file are newer they will not be added in. The newer files need to exist outside of the. With the -U update flag, we can update existing files as long as they have the same file name. zip extension on the output file, this takes place automatically. It is important to note that this does not remove the original test.txt file, it leaves it in place and creates a new. In this example, we are creating test.zip on the desktop which contains the test.txt file which also resides on the desktop. PS C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop> Compress-Archive -LiteralPath C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\test.txt -DestinationPath C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\test Windows Server 2016 ships with PowerShell version 5.0 which has a lot of new cmdlets, including Compress-Archive and Expand-Archive which we will be demonstrating here. Here we take a look at some new cmdlets available in PowerShell 5.0 to allow us to archive contents into. zip archive by command line without custom scripts or tools, until now. ![]() Prior to Windows Server 2016 there wasn’t really an easy built-in way of compressing files into a. ![]()
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