Send to - Compressed (Zipped) Folder Win 7

[timtim1234]

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

 

[goombawaho]

Don't believe there is a native solution.
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[timtim1234]

Thanks, I thought as much

 

[xwb]

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.

 

[timtim1234]

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.

 

[strongm]

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.

 

[HughLerwill]

See zip.exe and unzip.exe copyright info-zip (

http://www.info-zip.org).

>nowhere near a Pc for the next couple of weeks
Have a good break...

 

[HughLerwill]

> without needing a 3rd party application
Sorry; but zip.exe and unzip.exe are pretty handy.

 

[MoMurdoc]

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

 

[dilettante]

Isn't that Write-Zip doodad also something you have to install first?

 

[strongm]

Yes, it's the community extensions, isn't it?