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Send to - Compressed (Zipped) Folder Win 7

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timtim1234

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May 22, 2014
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Does anyone know the DOS or command line equivalent of using this process Send to - Compressed (Zipped) Folder in Windows 7? I would like to ZIP and UNZIP files from a command prompt without needing a 3rd party application.
Any help is appreciated.

Thanks
 
Don't believe there is a native solution.
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Have a look at the compact command. I've only ever used it twice in 15 years and can't remember the syntax but I know it does work.
 
I initially did look at this command but it doesn't do what I need it too. I need a better compression and in the ZIP format, but thank you as well. The compress command in the Resource kit Tools looked promising, but it isn't available for Win 7.
 
Actually there ought to be a way to do this from the command line via the rundll32 command. But I'm nowhere near a Pc for the next couple of weeks, so can't verify the exact calls necessary.
 
> without needing a 3rd party application
Sorry; but zip.exe and unzip.exe are pretty handy.
 
Note sure about CMD but you can with Powershell which is present on all windows machines 7 and up

Get-Childitem c:\MyFile -Recurse | Write-Zip -IncludeEmptyDirectories -OutputPath C:\MyFile\test.zip

Recurse simply makes it copy sub folders/files etc.
Get-ChildItem gathers all the children of a parent object - files in a folder
 
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