How can you zip or unzip from the script using ONLY Windows' built-in capabilities?
To expand upon Steven Penny's PowerShell solution, you can incorporate it into a batch file by calling powershell.exe like this:
powershell.exe -nologo -noprofile -command "& { Add-Type -A 'System.IO.Compression.FileSystem'; [IO.Compression.ZipFile]::ExtractToDirectory('foo.zip', 'bar'); }"As Ivan Shilo said, this won't work with PowerShell 2, it requires PowerShell 3 or greater and .NET Framework 4.
If you have Java installed, you can compress to a ZIP archive using the jar command:
jar -cMf targetArchive.zip sourceDirectoryc = Creates a new archive file.
M = Specifies that a manifest file should not be added to the archive.
f = Indicates target file name.
PowerShell 5.0
From Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive you can use:
E.g.:
Create
result.zipfrom the entireTestfolder:Compress-Archive -Path C:\Test -DestinationPath C:\resultExtract the content of
result.zipin the specifiedTestfolder:Expand-Archive -Path result.zip -DestinationPath C:\Test