I'm writing a simple ps1 script to automatically zip up log files to their own individual zip archives (I'll ultimately use Task Scheduler to schedule), and I want the output name to be the same as the input name (e.g. Log_20210309.log > Log_20210309.zip)
I feel like I'm so close. The below example looks for *.log files with yesterday's date in the filename, and where I need help is piping the filename to the zip output filename.
$Input = "C:\Script\Input\"
$Output = "C:\Scripts\Output\"
Get-ChildItem $Input -Filter *$((Get-Date).AddDays(-1).ToString('yyyyMMdd')).log | Compress-Archive -DestinationPath $Output$_.FileName -Force
The Get-ChildItem
part seems to work OK (the script works if I replace everything after the pipe with Compress-Archive -DestinationPath $Output -Force
, but the output filename will be blank (".zip")). I've tried dozens of variations of the piped section, including:
Compress-Archive -DestinationPath $Output + $_.FileName -Force
Compress-Archive -DestinationPath $Output + "$_.FileName" -Force
ForEach-Object { Compress-Archive -DestinationPath $Output"$_.FileName" -Force }
ForEach-Object { Compress-Archive -DestinationPath $Output + "$_.FileName" -Force }
and so on...
This script uses variables for the source directory, destination directory, and filename extension to compress. When it is compressing the correct files, remove the -WhatIf
from the Compress-Archive
command.
$SourceDir = 'C:\Script\Input'
$OutputDir = 'C:\Script\Output'
$Extension = '.log'
Get-ChildItem -File -Recurse -Path $SourceDir -Filter $('*' + $Extension) |
ForEach-Object {
Compress-Archive `
-DestinationPath (Join-Path $OutputDir $($_.BaseName + '.zip')) `
-Path $_.FullName -WhatIf
}