Creating a zipped/compressed folder in Windows using Powershell or the command line

Question

I am creating a nightly database schema file and would like to put all the files created each night, one for each database, into a folder and compress that folder. I have a

Answer 1

Using PowerShell Version 3.0:

Copy-ToZip -File ".\blah" -ZipFile ".\blah.zip" -Force

Hope this helps.