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Go-to Hacks author Paul Bausch shares another productivity problem he’s solved for himself with a bit of hacking:
Windows doesn’t have a command line utility for compressing files (that I know of), and I had to come up with a way to automate some file transfers today. So I whipped up a tiny Perl script that will zip up a file.
He adds that his hack works well with Windows batch files and will save him a bunch of bandwidth. If Paul’s homegrown fix looks like something you could use too, check out his site for the code.
4 thoughts on “Command Line Zip for Windows”
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There are two command-line zip/unzips that I use:
The optional zip/unzip packages you can get from Cygwin (invoke them as c:cygwinbinzip or unzip if you don’t add the Cygwin bin directory to your path)
The free Info-ZIP
But I like the Perl solution; once you’ve gone down that road, you can even replace your whole batch file with a Perl script!
I use 7-zip (7-zip.org) it has a fully featured command line that we’ve been using for at least a year on Windows Server 2003 boxes.