File Operations

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$env:userprofile\Desktop
 
$Home\Desktop
 
~\Desktop

Example

Get-ChildItem -Recurse *.config | Select-String "foo" -List | Select Path

New-Item -force $env:temp\foo\foo.txt

Example

Compress-Archive -Path .\* -DestinationPath $env:userprofile\desktop\webapp1.zip

Example

$file=Get-ChildItem -Path .\* -Exclude "*.tmp, *.log"
Compress-Archive -Path $file -DestinationPath $env:userprofile\desktop\webapp1.zip

$files = ls -Recurse | Where-Object {$_.FullName -notlike "*log*"}
Compress-Archive -Path $file -DestinationPath $env:userprofile\desktop\webapp1.zip

List contents of archive

$archive = [System.IO.Compression.ZipFile]::OpenRead("$env:userprofile\downloads\archive.zip")
 
$archive.Entries | Select-Object -Property FullName

Path References