Compress-Archive with wildcard

Compress-Archive -Path C:\Documents\* -CompressionLevel Optimal -DestinationPath C:\Archives\Documents.zip

This command:

Compresses all files in C:\Documents
Uses Optimal compression
Save the resulting archive in C:\Archives\Documents.zip
-DestinationPath will add .zipif not present.
-LiteralPath can be used if you require naming it without .zip.

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