26 June 2008
Create Zip files within Powershell
You can use DotNetZip library from within Powershell. It's pretty simple, fast, easy.
example:
function ZipUp-Files ( $directory )
{
$children = get-childitem -path $directory
foreach ($o in $children)
{
if ($o.Name -ne "TestResults" -and
$o.Name -ne "obj" -and
$o.Name -ne "bin" -and
$o.Name -ne "tfs" -and
$o.Name -ne "notused" -and
$o.Name -ne "Release")
{
if ($o.PSIsContainer)
{
ZipUp-Files ( $o.FullName )
}
else
{
if ($o.Name -ne ".tfs-ignore" -and
!$o.Name.EndsWith(".cache") -and
!$o.Name.EndsWith(".zip") )
{
Write-output $o.FullName
$e= $zipfile.AddFile($o.FullName)
}
}
}
}
}
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFrom("c:\\\bin\\Ionic.Utils.Zip.dll");
$zipfile = new-object Ionic.Utils.Zip.ZipFile("zipsrc.zip");
ZipUp-Files "DotNetZip"
$zipfile.Save()
The example above shows how to create a zip. I use it to zip up a directory containing source files, and I leave out any unwanted files or directories. Of course you can also extract a zip, view a zip, Update a zip, and so on. Anything you can do in the DotNetZip library, you can do in Powershell.
Visit http://www.codeplex.com/DotNetZip to get DotNetZip.
Comment Notification
If you would like to receive an email when updates are made to this post, please register here
Subscribe to this post's comments using
Comment Policy: No HTML allowed. URIs and line breaks are converted automatically. Your e–mail address will not show up on any public page.
