Use PowerShell to create a Zip archive

PowerShell can easily create zip archives of files and folders using the Write-Zip cmdlet.

Get-ChildItem C:\MyScripts\*.ps1 | Write-Zip -OutputPath C:\Temp\PS-scripts.zip

Here we zipped up all the PowerShell scripts written or downloaded for archive purposes:



Get-ChildItem also has a -Recurse parameter if we want to zip up subfolders, and the Write-Zip cmdlet has a -IncludeEmptyDirectories parameter if we want to, well, include empty directories.