There’s a good comparison on popular compression algorithms worth checking out:
Gzip is a compression algorithm, and is based on the DEFLATE algorithm, which is a combination of LZ77 and Huffman coding. In PowerShell v5+ we have the Expand-Archive command: Expand-Archive c:\a.zip -DestinationPath c:\a But only to find that PowerShell doesn’t make this quite trivial. We found ourselves with a requirement to download an updated version of a public dataset on a regular basis, so PowerShell + windows scheduler came to mind, since the application runs in a windows environment.
