PowerShell: Create Archive zip, tar, 7z
Create Zip Archive
Compress-Archive Pictures/ pic.zip
Note: the max zip file Compress-Archive can create is 2 GB.
As of 2021-11-07.
See help Compress-Archive
Use 7z instead.
Create Tar Archive
Windows 10 has BSD tar builtin, at
C:/Windows/system32/tar.exe
# create tar file tar cvf dirname.tar dirname
tar -h for help.
For more detail see
Linux: Extract tar zip gzip lzip bzip2 xz rar
Create 7z archive
# create a 7z archive 7z a Pictures.7z Pictures
# create a zip archive 7z a Pictures.zip Pictures