Zip and UnZip a folder command line

Question

How to Zip and Unzip a folder using the command line? I don't need to use another tool like 7zip or winrar. Is there a way to use windows zip method using the command line?

Answer 1

There is nothing built into windows for that at least, MS provides no executable for it, however you can take a look at something like Power-shell.

Power-shell can do something like this;

Add-Type -A System.IO.Compression.FileSystem
[IO.Compression.ZipFile]::CreateFromDirectory('foo', 'foo.zip')
[IO.Compression.ZipFile]::ExtractToDirectory('foo.zip', 'bar')

If you search on stack-overflow a little you can find a lot more posts about this.

Hier are also some other posts about this subject that can be of help; Link Post 1 Link Post 2