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PowerShell script to compress a directory to a .zip file
$source = "C:\Path\To\Directory"
$destination = "C:\Path\To\Zip\file.zip"
If(Test-path $destination) {Remove-item $destination}
Add-Type -assembly "system.io.compression.filesystem"
[io.compression.zipfile]::CreateFromDirectory($Source, $destination)
@parthvora25
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Hi,
I am trying to compress zip files using your script and its not working for me. It gives following error.
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john2893 commented Nov 8, 2018

Thank you! That worked!

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