If you want to store a big folder as a single file, so it could be easily uploaded somewhere or shared with someone, you can create a simple zip archive from it.
To avoid wasting a time and resources on compression and decompression, this zip archive can be created without compression.
In this short note i will show how to create a zip file without compression from the command line on Windows, Linux and MacOS.
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Zip Without Compression
Execute the following command from the Windows PowerShell to zip a file or a directory without compression:
PS C:\> Compress-Archive -CompressionLevel NoCompression `
-Path 'C:\input' -DestinationPath 'C:\output.zip'
Multi-Line Command: The long PowerShell command above have been spitted over multiple lines by using a space followed by the backquote character, i.e. `.
On Linux or MacOS a zip archive without compression can be created from a terminal using the command as follows:
$ zip -0 -r output.zip input
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