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I recently needed to download an archive from the Internet onto a Windows Server 2012 Core machine. This is a simple guide on using wget on Windows Server 2012 Core via PowerShell. Additionally, I will cover compressing and extracting .zip archives using PowerShell

• From the command prompt, open a powershell session:
  

  powershell
  

• Use wget to download a .zip archive from the Internet:
  

  wget http://www.example.com/someArchive.zip -UseBasicParsing -OutFile someArchive.zip
  

Compress/Extract Archives¶

NOTE: .NET 4.5 is required for this method to work properly.

• Add the compression type:
  

  Add-Type -A System.IO.Compression.FileSystem
  

• To compress a directory into a .zip archive:
  

  [IO.Compression.ZipFile]::CreateFromDirectory('someArchive', 'someArchive.zip')
  

• To extract a .zip archive to a directory:
  

  [IO.Compression.ZipFile]::ExtractToDirectory('someArchive.zip', 'someArchive')
  

Resources¶

• http://superuser.com/questions/362152/native-alternative-to-wget-in-windows-powershell
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17546016/how-can-you-zip-or-unzip-from-the-command-prompt-using-only-windows-built-in-ca