Is there a one-liner that will zip/unzip files (*.zip) in PowerShell?
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DotNetZip will allow you to do this from PowerShell. It is not a one-liner, but the library will allow you to write the PowerShell script you need. You can also use the COM interface, see Compress Files with Windows PowerShell then package a Windows Vista Sidebar Gadget. Googling "zip powershell" or "unzip powershell" might also turn up useful results. | ||||
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This is how you can do it purely from Powershell without any external tools. This unzips a file called test.zip onto the current working directory:
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You may wish to check out The PowerShell Community Extensions (PSCX) which has cmdlets specifically for this. | |||||||
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I find the simplest solution to just use infozip binaries which I have used for years and use in a UNIX environment.
It would be straighforward to put a powershell wrapper around the text output but in practice I never need that so I haven't bothered. | |||
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I also like Info-ZIP (the Zip engine found in most other Zip utilities) and 7-Zip, another favorite which has both a GUI and command line Zip utility. The point being, there are some good command-line utilities that will work for most PowerShell tasks. There are some tricks to running command line utilities that were not built with PowerShell in mind:
Try this:
Or even:
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