Vista - zip files created within same month

I have an archive folder that contains files from different months. I would
like to have a script that takes all of the files created say in May and
creates a zip file called May2008.zip. Then after it creates the zip and
verifies delete the files from the folder. Then does the same for and other
previuos months files.


TIA.

What ZIP application do you use?

This will dir files only, group them by the month/year they were created.


dir d:\scripts\temp | where {!$_.PSIsContainer} | group {"{0:MMM}{0:yyyy}"
-f $_.CreationTime} | foreach {
$zipFileName = $_.name + ".zip"
# make zip file $zipFileName
$_.group | Remove-Item -WhatIf
}


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The PowerShell Community Extensions at
http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.as...e=PowerShellCX

has cmdlets to write archive files as Zip, GZip, BZip2 and tar

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"Shay Levi" wrote:

Here's the solution using 7-Zip (www.7-zip.org):



$7z = "C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe"

dir d:\scripts\temp | where {!$_.PSIsContainer} | group {"{0:MMM}{0:yyyy}"
-f $_.CreationTime} | foreach {

$zipFileName = $_.name + ".zip"

# generate list of files to compress, for list files, 7-Zip uses UTF-8 encoding
by default
$_.group | foreach {$_.fullname} | out-file d:\listfile.txt -encoding utf8
-force

# archive list of files
$null = & $7z a -tzip d:\$zipFileName `@d:\listfile.txt

# check if the operation succeeded
if($LASTEXITCODE -eq 0){
"operation succeeded, removing source files..."
$_.group | Remove-Item -whatIf
} else {
"error"
}

}




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Shay Levi
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Thanks Rich, much better


dir d:\scripts\temp | where {!$_.PSIsContainer} | group {"{0:MMM}{0:yyyy}"
-f $_.CreationTime} | foreach {
write-zip -path ($_.group | foreach {$_.fullname} ) -OutputPath ($_.name
+ ".zip") -removeoriginal -whatIf
}




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Shay Levi
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Thanks for the script .. it will be using Pkzip.


Thanks again.


"Shay Levi" <no@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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What version? Check my reply to RichS. PSCX is much more robust solution.


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