Batch file script to zip files

Question

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

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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

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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  gt   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   gt  gt   tempFilePath    ECHO   filePath    gt  gt   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   gt  NUL 2 gt  amp 1  DEL setup inf  gt  NUL 2 gt  amp 1 DEL setup rpt  gt  NUL 2 gt  amp 1 DEL  tempFilePath   gt  NUL 2 gt  amp 1

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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  gt   zipIt vbs     echo InputFolder   objArgs 0   gt  gt   zipIt vbs     echo ZipFile   objArgs 1   gt  gt   zipIt vbs     echo CreateObject  Scripting FileSystemObject   CreateTextFile ZipFile  True  Write  PK    amp  Chr 5    amp  Chr 6    amp  String 18  vbNullChar   gt  gt   zipIt vbs     echo Set objShell   CreateObject  Shell Application    gt  gt   zipIt vbs     echo Set source   objShell NameSpace InputFolder  Items  gt  gt   zipIt vbs     echo objShell NameSpace ZipFile  CopyHere source   gt  gt   zipIt vbs      ECHO                                                  ECHO Zipping  please wait       echo wScript Sleep 12000  gt  gt   zipIt vbs     CScript   zipIt vbs   TEMPDIR    OUTPUTZIP      del  zipIt vbs     rmdir  s  q   TEMPDIR        ECHO                                                  ECHO      ZIP Completed

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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

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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

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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  gt   zipIt vbs echo InputFolder   objArgs 0   gt  gt   zipIt vbs echo ZipFile   objArgs 1   gt  gt   zipIt vbs echo Set fso   WScript CreateObject  Scripting FileSystemObject    gt  gt   zipIt vbs echo Set objZipFile   fso CreateTextFile ZipFile  True   gt  gt   zipIt vbs echo objZipFile Write  PK    amp  Chr 5    amp  Chr 6    amp  String 18  vbNullChar   gt  gt   zipIt vbs echo objZipFile Close  gt  gt   zipIt vbs echo Set objShell   WScript CreateObject  Shell Application    gt  gt   zipIt vbs echo Set source   objShell NameSpace InputFolder  Items  gt  gt   zipIt vbs echo Set objZip   objShell NameSpace fso GetAbsolutePathName ZipFile    gt  gt   zipIt vbs echo if not  objZip is nothing  then   gt  gt   zipIt vbs echo    objZip CopyHere source   gt  gt   zipIt vbs echo    wScript Sleep 12000  gt  gt   zipIt vbs echo end if  gt  gt   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

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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

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