Powershell script to loop over files to rename and create individual zip copies

rename-and-zip

# Get all XML files - xml can be replaced with any other file extension
$files = Get-ChildItem *.xml -Recurse

# Loop over files to rename and create individual zip copies
foreach ($file in $files) {
    
    # Get file name without xml extension
    $zipFileName = (Get-Item $file).BaseName
    # Get dir name for each file and append file name without extension
    $combinedPath = $file.DirectoryName+'\'+$zipFileName
    # Create individual zip file for each xml 
    $compress = @{
    Path = $file
    CompressionLevel = "Fastest"
    DestinationPath = $combinedPath+'.zip'
    }

    Compress-Archive @compress

}