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Erlja Jkdf.
Erlja Jkdf.

Reputation: 171

Cmd not recognising 7zip

My bat script (new.bat):

7z x –oC:\Users\Toshiba\Downloads\* C:\Users\Toshiba\Downloads\*.zip

del C:\Users\Toshiba\Downloads\*.zip

Despite using the command line version of 7zip, if i run my batch script, i get:

7z x ΓÇôoC:\Users\Toshiba\Downloads* C:\Users\Toshiba\Downloads*.zip '7z' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

del C:\Users\Toshiba\Downloads*.zip C:\Users\Toshiba\Downloads\XT1032_RETAIL-EU_4.4.4_KXB21.14-L1.40_36_cid7_CFC_1FF.xml.zip Access is denied.

Here are my instructions. It asks me to edit the PATH User variable under Enviromental variables, but as there wasn't one i created it like so:

Variable Name: Path

Variable Value:C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;C:\Program Files (x86)\7-Zip\;C:\Users\Toshiba\Documents\new.bat

Upvotes: 0

Views: 9423

Answers (1)

woxxom
woxxom

Reputation: 73526

  • That ΓÇô in the error message means that instead of the hyphen - you've used En dash.
  • '7z' is not recognized means either that it's not in a folder defined in PATH variable or you have saved the batch file with a unicode signature (byte order mark).
  • Access is denied error may indicate the file is opened somewhere or maybe it has a readonly attribute which you can clear by adding attrib -r C:\Users\Toshiba\Downloads\*.zip on a new line before del.

Solution: use the correct hyphen -, specify a full path for 7z in quotes (for example, "C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe") and resave the file in plain encoding (ANSI in Windows Notepad, for example), not UTF-8, not UTF-16.

Upvotes: 1

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