create zip from script location powershell

Question

I have a PowerShell script which should be able to create a zip of a particular folder, which is also in the same location. But the problem is I do not know where this script will be saved. I tried the code below, but I am not able to do it. The Compress-Archieve method shows the argument is null or empty. Please help.

Add-Type -AssemblyName System.IO.Compression.FileSystem
$source = Get-ChildItem -Filter -Directory .\PublishOutput
$dest = Get-Location
$f = "\Kovai.zip"
$final = Join-Path $dest $f
Write-Host $final
[System.IO.Compression.ZipFile]::CreateFromDirectory($source,$final)

This is a little vague. Do you mean to save the zip in the same location as the folder or in the same location as the script? The answer from @gvee seems to assume same as folder. — Palle Due, Jan 31 '18 at 09:38
yeah same as the root folder where a sub folder exists which is zipped by the script and also thrown into the root folder itself. @gvee answer is what i was working on . THanks — HariHaran, Jan 31 '18 at 10:14

gvee · Accepted Answer · 2018-01-31T08:21:11.533

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$folderToZip = "C:\FolderToZip"
$rootfolder = Split-Path -Path $folderToZip
$zipFile = Join-Path -Path $rootfolder -ChildPath "ZippedFile.zip"

Write-Output "folderToZip = $folderToZip"
Write-Output "rootfolder  = $rootfolder"
Write-Output "zipFile     = $zipFile"

Compress-Archive -Path $folderToZip -DestinationPath $zipFile -Verbose

edited Jan 31 '18 at 08:21

answered Jan 31 '18 at 08:14

gvee

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Hi , awesome thanks for the answer . it works fine but only one concern. i want the contents inside FolderToZip to be directly present in the root of zip. Now it does like zip->FolderTozip->Contents . i want it like zip->Contents – HariHaran Jan 31 '18 at 09:43
[link]https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22808381/powershell-zip-folder-contents – HariHaran Jan 31 '18 at 09:50
I face the same problem as above – HariHaran Jan 31 '18 at 09:50
@HariHaran just change `$folderToZip = "C:\FolderToZip"` to `$folderToZip = "C:\FolderToZip\*"` – gvee Jan 31 '18 at 10:09
Thanks you so much – HariHaran Jan 31 '18 at 10:11

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 23 '23 at 08:06

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An easy way to a compressing folder with a subdirectory

 Compress-Archive -PAth test/* -DestinationPath a.zip
 ## replace "test" with your path

answered Mar 23 '23 at 08:06

Willie Cheng

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