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However I want to use my 7zip packer. When I select 5 files, I get 5 separate .zip archives for
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edited Oct 11 '13 at 17:12 asked Jul 18 '11 at 14:16 subdirectories and individualy zip to bzip
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1 How do I create seperate 7z files from each
selected directory with 7zip command line?
I am not sure you can do what you are suggesting using the graphical user interface, but you 17 How to do “legacy” ZIP compression with
can certainly from the command line: 7zip?
54 2 How do I add files from a directory to a .zip-
FOR %i IN (*.*) DO 7z.exe a "%~ni.7z" "%i" File using the 7zip command line?

4 how to “preserve internal directory

You would need to change directory (the cd command) to the F:\Downloads directory first, or structure” when unzipping on windows?
whatever directory you would want to perform the mass compression. Also, it is easy enough to
substitute in *.exe or whatever extension you want to filter for to just compress those 0 All zip files downloaded as 7zip
documents.
0 Want new directory while extracting archive
And the secret decoder ring: file using 7zip

1 Modify .zip directory structure using 7zip

%i is a variable that holds the file name for each step in the loop
(prefferably) command line without
(*.*) is the selection criteria, it could easily be *.exe or similar decompressing

7z.exe is the command line version of 7-Zip 1 Recursively zip all files in a directory into
individual zip files… but in a separate
%~ni - this expands the %i variable to just the file name - no extension directory

If you wanted to just add the folders for a given directory, the command is a bit more complex
as by default FOR just works with files. We need to feed it some additional information: Hot Network Questions
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FOR /F "usebackq delims=?" %i IN (`DIR /B /A:D`) DO 7z.exe a "%i.7z" "%i" in play

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FOR %%i IN (*.*) DO 7z.exe a "%%~ni.7z" "%%i"
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Yea, except yours is 7z archive, I want a zip archive! So %~ni.zip instead? – Grumpy ol' Bear Jul 18 '11 2018?
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Better yet, I want zip or 7z with ultra compression. AND pack it in d:\packed. But so far your method
works! – Grumpy ol' Bear Jul 18 '11 at 17:43 When the road is blocked by animals, what's the
proper way to proceed?
1 Got it, thank you! FOR %i IN (.) DO 7z.exe a "i:\packed\%~ni.7z" "%i" -mx9 – Grumpy ol' Bear Jul 18
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By the way, can you show me how to do that in a batch file? i.e. sperate-archive.bat – Grumpy ol' Bear Broken Coil Spring - How urgent is the repair?
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Thanks, and how do I add whole folders to that script, please? – Grumpy ol' Bear Jul 19 '11 at 12:52 than expansion of religion or conquest)?

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I like Goyuix's answer. However, if you are using Windows 7 (or have Power Shell installed) and scale?
also use the command-line version of 7-zip, 7za.exe, then you can run this command:
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dir | ForEach-Object { & "7za.exe" a $_.BaseName $_.Name } Power-Ending Patterns

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You can also change "dir" to "dir *.exe" to only select executable files.
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One nice thing about Power Shell is that you are working with objects instead of strings. So you
could get really specific if you wanted to. For example:
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dir *.csv | ? { $_.Length -lt 18900 -and $_.LastWriteTime -ge [DateTime] "07/01/2011" }

This will only include files that:

1. have a csv extension

2. less than 18,900 bytes in size
3. last modified on or after 7/1/2011

EDIT If you want zip files instead of 7-zip files, use InfoZip's zip.exe instead.

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5 7-zip can also create zip files - have a look at the -t flag. Example: 7z a -tzip archive.zip *.exe –
Goyuix Jul 18 '11 at 22:48

Ok, $_.BaseName $_.Name works, but how do I do $_.BaseName $_.Name on another drive, in another
directory? Say f:\test\file1.7z etc. – Grumpy ol' Bear Jul 20 '11 at 9:06

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You can download and install 7zip plugin for Total Commander from
http://www.ghisler.com/plugins.htm Once you do that on the right side of the window from your
screenshot there will be another selection for 7zip compression. With that option you can
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accomplish exactly what you are asking for.

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Mxx
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I've just been working on exactly this problem and one of the issues I found was duplication of
the folder name within the archive, i.e. when compressing a folder called "foo" an archive
containing .\foo\fighters.txt is produced instead of just one containing fighters.txt .
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The answer, therefore is to go into the directory being processed and have the archive appear
in the previous (root) directory, then return to that directory in order to process the next folder.

It is also important to have 7ZIP ignore existing ZIP and CMD files within the root directory to
prevent them ending up within the archive, hence the -x!*.zip and -x!*.cmd exclusion
arguments.

This script will also maintain recursive folder structures.

@echo off

REM Ensures variables set within the batch file are local to
REM this script only and will be removed when finished.
setlocal

if exist *.zip goto zip_exist

for /d %%X in (*) do (

cls
cd /D %%X
"e:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" a -r -x!*.zip -x!*.cmd "..\%%X.zip" "*.*"
cd ..
)
goto end

:zip_exist
Echo.
Echo Note: for this script to work, compression of
Echo pre-existing zip files is not possible.

:end
pause

The above code should be copied to a batch file such as "compress_dirs.cmd" and run as
admin from the directory containing the folders you wish to compress.

Hope this helps.

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If you need to keep the folder structure, and save each file in its own structure, try this:

Save this command in a file with extension .bat and put it in the folder you need to zip:
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FOR /R %%i IN (*.*) DO "C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" a "%%i.7z" "%%i" -sdel

Note:

-sdel: Deletes the original file (optional, if you only want to keep the compressed file)

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