windows-zip

windows-zip

Zipping and unzipping on Windows

How was it made

• Project Bootstrap
• Implementation and Testing
• Code Quality Improvements
• Publishing with GitHub Actions

Install

npm install windows-zip

Usage

zipSync

const { zipSync } = require('windows-zip');

const path = [
  '<path to the first source file or folder>',
  '<path to the second source file or folder>'
];

const dest = '<path and filename of the output zip file>';

zipSync(path, dest);

unzipSync

const { unzipSync } = require('windows-zip');

const path = '<path to the source zip file>';
const dest = '<path to the output folder>';

unzipSync(path, dest);

API

This package requires PowerShell 5+.

zipSync(path, dest)

Creates a compressed archive from specified files and directories (path) and save it to a .zip file at dest.

unzipSync(path, dest)

Extracts files from a specified achive file (path) to the dest directory.

Resources

• Microsoft Docs: Compress-Archive
• Microsoft Docs: Expand-Archive
• How to create a zip archive with PowerShell?
• Using PowerShell to Create ZIP Archives and Unzip Files
• Solution for the husky bug