How do I exclude a folder in compress-archive

Question

Can I somehow exclude a folder when I compress an archive like this?

$compress = Compress-Archive $DestinationPath $DestinationPath\\ARCHIVE\\archiv-$DateTime.zi         


        

Answer 1

you can use -update option of Compress-Archive. Select your subdirs with Get-ChildItem and Where

like it:

$YourDirToCompress="c:\temp"
$ZipFileResult="C:\temp10\result.zip"
$DirToExclude=@("test", "test1", "test2")

Get-ChildItem $YourDirToCompress -Directory  | 
           where { $_.Name -notin $DirToExclude} | 
              Compress-Archive -DestinationPath $ZipFileResult -Update