CODEWITHSUNDEEP
windowsbatch-file
user3085265
user3085265

Reputation: 243

Batch file script to zip files

i have a folder structure in this pattern. I've just shown two sub directories and 2 files in each but generally I have n number of subdirectories at a single level and single level of files (but can be n number of files)under them.

Directory master
subDirectory x:
  file1
  file2
Directory y:
  file 3
  file 4

I need to create a windows script, a batch file to run from the master directory and give me two zip files x.zip and y.zip containing their respective files.

I know my script has to use for and zip commands but I am going bonkers trying to get it to work as I can't understand from the syntax of these commands and googling doesnt seem to help.

I found a command like this for %f in ("*.*") do zip "%~nf.zip" "%f" but it seems to be working only if the files are directly there without subfolders.

Upvotes: 24

Views: 276965

Answers (10)

MasterChef
MasterChef

Reputation: 65

Late to the party, but I wanted to add on to another proposed answer that recommended tar, but the output zip archive could not be read because the format was wrong. In order to resolve this, one must include the argument --archive zip. Here is an example:

tar -cf path\to\target.zip --format zip path\to\source

Also, if you are using tar from the command line then you can use argument -a instead of --format, and tar will automatically use the correct format based on the output file's extension ("zip" in this case). Unfortunately, -a is not available when using tar in a batch script.

See other format options here from FreeBSD.

Upvotes: 2

TechNerd
TechNerd

Reputation: 111

Starting windows 10 build 17063, you can use TAR. MSDN link

For example, to create a zip file for a directory named folder XYZ that is in inside folder Reports, you can enter the following in the command prompt.

tar -cf XYZ.zip \Reports\XYZ

Upvotes: 6

Raj Shrishrimal
Raj Shrishrimal

Reputation: 21

Simple script Its convert all dump folder and subfolder files in desktop as backup.zip

write this below line in backup.bat and execute

"C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" a -tzip "C:\Users\shris\Desktop\backup.zip" -r "C:\Users\shris\Desktop\dump\*" -mx5

Upvotes: 0

Matt
Matt

Reputation: 27026

I like PodTech.io's answer to achieve this without additional tools. For me, it did not run out of the box, so I had to slightly change it. I am not sure if the command wScript.Sleep 12000 (12 sec delay) in the original script is required or not, so I kept it.

Here's the modified script Zip.cmd based on his answer, which works fine on my end:

@echo off   
if "%1"=="" goto end

setlocal
set TEMPDIR=%TEMP%\ZIP
set FILETOZIP=%1
set OUTPUTZIP=%2.zip
if "%2"=="" set OUTPUTZIP=%1.zip

:: preparing VBS script
echo Set objArgs = WScript.Arguments > _zipIt.vbs
echo InputFolder = objArgs(0) >> _zipIt.vbs
echo ZipFile = objArgs(1) >> _zipIt.vbs
echo Set fso = WScript.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") >> _zipIt.vbs
echo Set objZipFile = fso.CreateTextFile(ZipFile, True) >> _zipIt.vbs
echo objZipFile.Write "PK" ^& Chr(5) ^& Chr(6) ^& String(18, vbNullChar) >> _zipIt.vbs
echo objZipFile.Close >> _zipIt.vbs
echo Set objShell = WScript.CreateObject("Shell.Application") >> _zipIt.vbs
echo Set source = objShell.NameSpace(InputFolder).Items >> _zipIt.vbs
echo Set objZip = objShell.NameSpace(fso.GetAbsolutePathName(ZipFile)) >> _zipIt.vbs
echo if not (objZip is nothing) then  >> _zipIt.vbs
echo    objZip.CopyHere(source) >> _zipIt.vbs
echo    wScript.Sleep 12000 >> _zipIt.vbs
echo end if >> _zipIt.vbs

@ECHO Zipping, please wait...
mkdir %TEMPDIR%
xcopy /y /s %FILETOZIP% %TEMPDIR%
WScript _zipIt.vbs  %TEMPDIR%  %OUTPUTZIP%
del _zipIt.vbs
rmdir /s /q  %TEMPDIR%

@ECHO ZIP Completed.
:end

Usage:

  • One parameter (no wildcards allowed here):

    Zip FileToZip.txt

    will create FileToZip.txt.zip in the same folder containing the zipped file FileToZip.txt.

  • Two parameters (optionally with wildcards for the first parameter), e.g.

    Zip *.cmd Scripts

    creates Scripts.zip in the same folder containing all matching *.cmd files.

Note: If you want to debug the VBS script, check out this hint, it describes how to activate the debugger to go through it step by step.

Upvotes: 1

Patrick Burwell
Patrick Burwell

Reputation: 39

This is the correct syntax for archiving individual; folders in a batch as individual zipped files...

for /d %%X in (*) do "c:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" a -mx "%%X.zip" "%%X\*"

Upvotes: 3

Abhijeet
Abhijeet

Reputation: 8771

This is link by Tomas has a well written script to zip contents of a folder.

To make it work just copy the script into a batch file and execute it by specifying the folder to be zipped(source).

No need to mention destination directory as it is defaulted in the script to Desktop ("%USERPROFILE%\Desktop")

Copying the script here, just incase the web-link is down:

@ECHO OFF
SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION

SET sourceDirPath=%1
IF [%2] EQU [] (
  SET destinationDirPath="%USERPROFILE%\Desktop"
) ELSE (
  SET destinationDirPath="%2"
)
IF [%3] EQU [] (
  SET destinationFileName="%~n1%.zip"
) ELSE (
  SET destinationFileName="%3"
)
SET tempFilePath=%TEMP%\FilesToZip.txt
TYPE NUL > %tempFilePath%

FOR /F "DELIMS=*" %%i IN ('DIR /B /S /A-D "%sourceDirPath%"') DO (
  SET filePath=%%i
  SET dirPath=%%~dpi
  SET dirPath=!dirPath:~0,-1!
  SET dirPath=!dirPath:%sourceDirPath%=!
  SET dirPath=!dirPath:%sourceDirPath%=!
  ECHO .SET DestinationDir=!dirPath! >> %tempFilePath%
  ECHO "!filePath!" >> %tempFilePath%
)

MAKECAB /D MaxDiskSize=0 /D CompressionType=MSZIP /D Cabinet=ON /D Compress=ON /D UniqueFiles=OFF /D DiskDirectoryTemplate=%destinationDirPath% /D CabinetNameTemplate=%destinationFileName%  /F %tempFilePath% > NUL 2>&1

DEL setup.inf > NUL 2>&1
DEL setup.rpt > NUL 2>&1
DEL %tempFilePath% > NUL 2>&1

Upvotes: -1

PodTech.io
PodTech.io

Reputation: 5264

No external dependency on 7zip or ZIP - create a vbs script and execute:

    @ECHO Zipping
    mkdir %TEMPDIR%
    xcopy /y /s %FILETOZIP% %TEMPDIR%
    echo Set objArgs = WScript.Arguments > _zipIt.vbs
    echo InputFolder = objArgs(0) >> _zipIt.vbs
    echo ZipFile = objArgs(1) >> _zipIt.vbs
    echo CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject").CreateTextFile(ZipFile, True).Write "PK" ^& Chr(5) ^& Chr(6) ^& String(18, vbNullChar) >> _zipIt.vbs
    echo Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application") >> _zipIt.vbs
    echo Set source = objShell.NameSpace(InputFolder).Items >> _zipIt.vbs
    echo objShell.NameSpace(ZipFile).CopyHere(source) >> _zipIt.vbs
    @ECHO *******************************************
    @ECHO Zipping, please wait..
    echo wScript.Sleep 12000 >> _zipIt.vbs
    CScript  _zipIt.vbs  %TEMPDIR%  %OUTPUTZIP%
    del _zipIt.vbs
    rmdir /s /q  %TEMPDIR%

    @ECHO *******************************************
    @ECHO      ZIP Completed

Upvotes: 7

Arun Nallamayan
Arun Nallamayan

Reputation: 361

I know its too late but if you still wanna try 

for /d %%X in (*) do (for /d %%a in (%%X) do ( "C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" a -tzip "%%X.zip" ".\%%a\" ))

here * is the current folder. for more options try this link

Upvotes: 11

m3nda
m3nda

Reputation: 2027

You're near :)

First, the batch (%%variable) and Windows CMD (%variable) uses different variable naming. Second, i dont figure out how do you use zip from CMD. This is from Linux users i think. Use built-in zip manipulation is not like easy on Win, and even harder with batch scripting.

But you're lucky anyway. I got (extracted to target folder) zip.exe and cygwin1.dll from the cygwin package (3mb filesize both together) and start play with it right now.

Of course, i use CMD for better/faster testing instead batch. Only remember modify the %varname to %%varname before blame me :P

for /d %d in (*) do zip -r %d %d

Explanation: for /d ... that matches any folder inside. Only folder ignoring files. (use for /f to filesmatch) for /d %d in ... the %d tells cmd wich name do you wanna assign to your variable. I put d to match widh d (directory meaning). for /d %d in (*) ... Very important. That suposses that I CD to desired folder, or run from. (*) this will mean all on THIS dir, because we use /d the files are not processed so no need to set a pattern, even if you can get only some folders if you need. You can use absolute paths. Not sure about issues with relatives from batch. for /d %d in (*) do zip -r ... Do ZIP is obvious. (exec zip itself and see the help display to use your custom rules). r- is for recursive, so anyting will be added. for /d %d in (*) do zip -r %d %d The first %d is the zip name. You can try with myzip.zip, but if will fail because if you have 2 or more folders the second cannot gave the name of the first and will not try to overwrite without more params. So, we pass %d to both, wich is the current for iteration folder name zipped into a file with the folder name. Is not neccesary to append ".zip" to name.

Is pretty short than i expected when start to play with.

Upvotes: 5

Magoo
Magoo

Reputation: 80203

for /d %%a in (*) do (ECHO zip -r -p "%%~na.zip" ".\%%a\*")

should work from within a batch.

Note that I've included an ECHO to simply SHOW the command that is proposed. You'd need to remove the ECHO keywor to EXECUTE the commands.

Upvotes: 22

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