{"id":73971,"date":"2015-08-14T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/08\/14\/powertip-use-powershell-5-to-compress-files\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:46:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:46:36","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-5-to-compress-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-5-to-compress-files\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell 5 to Compress Files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Learn how to use the new&nbsp;<\/span><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Compress-Archive<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">&nbsp;cmdlet to compress selected files in Windows PowerShell 5.0.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I compress a bunch of files on my computer that match a pattern I supply to&nbsp;<b>Get-ChildItem<\/b>?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use&nbsp;<b>Get-ChildItem<\/b>&nbsp;to find the files you want to compress, and pipe the results to the&nbsp;<b>Compress-Archive<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet, <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;for example (<b>gci<\/b>&nbsp;is an alias for&nbsp;<b>Get-ChildItem<\/b>):<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">gci c:\\fso\\*.txt | Compress-Archive -DestinationPath c:\\fso\\myarchive.zip<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Learn how to use the new&nbsp;Compress-Archive&nbsp;cmdlet to compress selected files in Windows PowerShell 5.0. &nbsp;How can I compress a bunch of files on my computer that match a pattern I supply to&nbsp;Get-ChildItem? &nbsp;Use&nbsp;Get-ChildItem&nbsp;to find the files you want to compress, and pipe the results to the&nbsp;Compress-Archive&nbsp;cmdlet, &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;for example (gci&nbsp;is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[38,609,356,3,608,45],"class_list":["post-73971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-files","tag-powershell-5","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-10","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Learn how to use the new&nbsp;Compress-Archive&nbsp;cmdlet to compress selected files in Windows PowerShell 5.0. &nbsp;How can I compress a bunch of files on my computer that match a pattern I supply to&nbsp;Get-ChildItem? &nbsp;Use&nbsp;Get-ChildItem&nbsp;to find the files you want to compress, and pipe the results to the&nbsp;Compress-Archive&nbsp;cmdlet, &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;for example (gci&nbsp;is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}