
Is there a better alternative? 7-Zip Is Better (and Free)ħ-Zip is a free, open source, cross-platform, very fast, archive file manager. However, these cmdlets do not support encryption, are relatively slow, cannot handle other archive formats, cannot peek at file listings inside of Zip archives without doing extraction, and cannot handle files larger than 2 GB (which is a big problem for archiving log files).įor this article, it's the lack of encryption support which is the real deal-killer. PowerShell 5.0 includes two cmdlets for working with compressed Zip files: Compress-Archive and Expand-Archive.
