Move files to a zip file

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#    NAME : Move-ZIP
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#    AUTHOR : Wessel van Sandwijk
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#    Website : http://www.useful-it.nl
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#    COMMENT : Move ZipFile
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#    VERSION HISTORY :
#    1.0  07-MRT-2013  -  Initial Version
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dir c:\demo\files\*.* -Recurse | Move-Zip c:\demo\myzip.zip

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#    FUNCTIONS
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function Move-Zip
{
    param([string]$zipfilename)
    if(-not (test-path($zipfilename)))
    {
        set-content $zipfilename ("PK" + [char]5 + [char]6 + ("$([char]0)" * 18))
        (dir $zipfilename).IsReadOnly = $false
    }
    $shellApplication = new-object -com shell.application
    $zipPackage = $shellApplication.NameSpace($zipfilename)
    foreach($file in $input)
    {
        $zipPackage.MoveHere($file.FullName)
        Start-sleep -milliseconds 500
    }
}

About The Author

Wessel van Sandwijk

I am a DevOps Engineer from the Netherlands.
My Skills are mainly PowerShell, Ansible, Choco, Automation, Active Directory, VMWare, Hyper-V and Security.

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