Compress/zips folder while excluding specific folders

Question

I am trying to find a way to compress/zip folders in a file-share.

There are some folders that need to be omitted. However all the folders that I need compressed have names that are 29 characters long.

I was looking into both using a bat file or a powershell script. Also was looking into using 7zip.

Any suggestions or help would be great.

How would you identify the files that need to be excluded? – henrycarteruk Feb 14 '17 at 17:08 — henrycarteruk, Feb 14 '17 at 17:08

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 16 '17 at 15:42

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In Powershell 5.0 there is a new module called: Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive

From there you can use Compress-Archive and Expand-Archive to easily generate .zip files.

answered Feb 16 '17 at 15:42

N.R.

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