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    Hi,

    I was looking into Compress-Archive cmdlt. I have a big folder (200 - 300MB). I want to zip it using power-shell as a part of a solution I am developing. I have to skip some type of file e.g. *.log and *.exe I don't want to be in the zip file. Anybody please suggest how I can achieve this. Do we have any straight option for this or any alternate way to achieve this?

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    Girish

    Monday, November 27, 2017 3:41 PM

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    First:  don't use line extenders for obvious reasons.
    Next: use exclude on command for performance
    Also: avoid unnecessary quotes
    Finally: format code for easy readability.

    Get-ChildItem -Path D:\* -Recurse -File -Exclude *.log,*.exe | 
    Where-Object {$_.Directory -notmatch 'folder1|folder2|folder3' } |
    Compress-Archive -DestinationPath D:\file.zip

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    Wednesday, November 29, 2017 8:17 AM

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    How about piping get-childitem to it?

    Get-ChildItem -recurse -exclude *.log,*.exe | Compress-Archive -DestinationPath file.zip

    (Edit: it doesn't preserve the path)




    • Edited by JS2010 Tuesday, November 28, 2017 3:14 PM
    Monday, November 27, 2017 3:48 PM
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    Get-CHhildItem will not work well under some circumstances.  Use the following. "Path" takes an array of paths and masks.

    Compress-Archive -Path d:\test\*.htm,d:\test\*.txt,d:\test\*.ps1 -DestinationPath d:\test\test.zip

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    Monday, November 27, 2017 4:05 PM
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    Thanks ,

    So  here we are saying that rather than excluding the specific file extensions we will include the extension that needs to be archieved. Am I right? Also what can be done if I want to exclude folders with some specific name.

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    Girish

    Tuesday, November 28, 2017 11:14 AM
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    Hi Girish,

    >> Also what can be done if I want to exclude folders with some specific name.
    Based on my research, you can also have a try with the following demo command, please replace the value to your actual value. For your reference, hope it is helpful to you:
    Get-ChildItem -Path 'D:' -Recurse | `
Where-Object {$_.PsIsContainer -eq $false -and $_.Extension -ne '.log' -and $_.Extension -ne '.exe' -and $_.Directory -notmatch 'excludefoldername'} | `
Compress-Archive -DestinationPath 'D:\file.zip'

    If you need further help, please feel free to let us know.

    Best Regards,
    Albert Ling

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    Wednesday, November 29, 2017 7:56 AM
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    First:  don't use line extenders for obvious reasons.
    Next: use exclude on command for performance
    Also: avoid unnecessary quotes
    Finally: format code for easy readability.

    Get-ChildItem -Path D:\* -Recurse -File -Exclude *.log,*.exe | 
    Where-Object {$_.Directory -notmatch 'folder1|folder2|folder3' } |
    Compress-Archive -DestinationPath D:\file.zip

    \_(ツ)_/

    Wednesday, November 29, 2017 8:17 AM
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    Hi jrv,

    Thank you for your suggestion, I have benefited a lot from them.

    Best Regards,
    Albert Ling

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    Wednesday, November 29, 2017 10:03 AM
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    The  following guidelines for best formatting and code structure: https://github.com/PoshCode/PowerShellPracticeAndStyle

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    Wednesday, November 29, 2017 10:20 AM
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    Note that using get-childitem doesn't preserve the directory structure in the zip file. Here's a solution using a temp folder: https://www.petri.com/custom-archiving-powershell-5-0 (There's probably some nice .net way to do it.)

    • Edited by JS2010 Wednesday, November 29, 2017 3:54 PM
    Wednesday, November 29, 2017 2:41 PM