Sure, I feel like giving it a go.

First of all, whenever I look for freeware that is small, easy to use, and doesnt require installation, I normally turn to tinyapps.

From them, I would suggest: 7zip 3.12 (Command Line Version) [291k] . (Page here)

That lets you zip and unzip... the rest you can just build into a batch file.

If you don't/can't do that, let me work on it after I turn in these programs.

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If you could make the batch file, that would be great! TYVM! Will you accept 500 points for the effort?

(Just one more thing, and this is me being really picky, but could you make it so it compresses them in the Maximum compression level?)

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I am almost done, and GUESS WHAT!

I found out how to get your program's CURRENT DIRECTORY!

Since argument %0 will always be the FULL path to your bat file, %0\.. is the folder that bat is in!

So if you wanted to change to the folder running your program, you can type:
cd %0\..

^_^ This means my program will be a LOT more stable.

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TYVM! It will be much appreciated - it's taking forever to compress all these files one by one. 500 points will be coming your way as soon as you release it.

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Ok, I am done testing.

Here is how to use it:

1. Unzip this somewhere.
2. Either drag the folder onto the "BatchZip.bat" file, or start "BatchZip.bat" from the command line.

3.a. If you dragged the folder, it does the rest.

3.b. If you start it from the command line, you can do the following:
0. If you type /?, you will get a list of what the program can do.
I. if you type /d it will date each file with the current date/time
^_^ This is useful for backups.
II. if you type /c and then a number, for example "BatchZip /c 0", it will change the compression level from 9 to 0, which is larger but faster.
III. if you type /t and then zip, rar, etc, it will save that format instead of 7zip. On a side note, you might need to change compression levels also if you do this.

All files will be zipped in the same folder that they exist.


Also, you can have it work on several directories: for example,
C:\test\BatchZip C:\Files1 F:\temp G:\ "C:\Program Files"
would zip every file in each folder.

Hope it is what you need.

{my readme:}

Quote:

The below is data I built into the batch program. You can access it by typing "BatchZip /?" into the command line. ^_^ Hope you like it! OH, and you can drag/drop folders onto the BAT if you want to, or just double click it to have it zip all files in the same folder as it. And as always, please keep "CoreData" in the same folder as BatchZip. This Batch program was made by Donald Mason-Smith AKA, TheAceOfFire Just give it a list of the folders, and it will save each file in that folder as a 7zip file. Optional commands: /d ~ date your zip files /t [type] ~ Type of compressed file [7z default] ~ Other options: [zip,rar,cab,gzip,bzip2,tar,etc] /c [level] ~ Level of compression [9 default, slow]. ~ 7z can handle 0,1,5,7,9 ~ Zip can handle 0,5,9 The level of compression can be changed by editing BatchZip.bat's top few data variables. Examples of Use: BatchZip.bat C:\Temp . E:\folder\Folder BatchZip C:\ D:\Temp F:\here Examples of Use with Date Stamping: BatchZip.bat /d relativeFolderToCompress BatchZip.bat /d ..\..\relativeFolderToCompress BatchZip /d C:\Temp BatchZip /d C:\ D:\Temp F:\here Examples of Use with custom Compression: BatchZip.bat /c 0 relativeFolderToCompress BatchZip.bat /c 5 ..\..\relativeFolderToCompress BatchZip /c 9 C:\Temp BatchZip /c 1 C:\ D:\Temp F:\here Examples of Use with custom Type: BatchZip.bat /t zip relativeFolderToCompress BatchZip.bat /t rar ..\..\relativeFolderToCompress BatchZip /t gzip C:\Temp BatchZip /t tar 1 C:\ D:\Temp F:\here Examples of Use with all 3: BatchZip.bat /d /c 5 /t zip relativeFolderToCompress BatchZip.bat /c 5 /d /t rar ..\relativeFolderToCompress BatchZip /c 5 /t gzip /d C:\Temp BatchZip /t tar /c 5 /d tar 1 C:\ D:\Temp F:\here

Sorry for the rapidshare link, my favorite upload site is down right now.
BatchZip.zip


And don't worry about the points, I don't mind helping out someone who helped me.

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TYVM! Using it now... 500 points coming your way, no matter how much you say you don't need them!

Only one very minor problem, which is that it doesn't come with a handy batch file that asks you what you want. This is OK for me, but it might not be for other readers of this thread.

I've made a simple and pretty rubbish one, but I found it works OK. To use it, make a new text document next to BatchZip.bat, and call it anything.bat, where anything can be whatever you want. Then, right-click on it, select Edit, and copy this into the window that comes up:

I'm sure theaceoffire would be able to come up with a much better one if he wanted to though. Anyway, put the files you want to compress next to the two batch files, and double-click the batch file you just created. Hopefully, it'll work.

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^_^ Yeah, I thought about asking for those, but you did ask for command line.

If you change NOTHING and drag the folder onto the bat, it does it with the settings you ask for.

It also works if you place it in the folder and click it (Although it will zip itself as well)

O.o however, I bet I could set it up to be silent if I routed all output to a log instead of the screen...

^_^ I might work on it a bit later.

The important part: You can pass my program SEVERAL folders, and it will go to each one and work on it.

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Yep. I completely know what you're talking about. I'm not baffled at all.

(I've sent you the 500 points in 5 payments of 100, as it didn't let me send them all at once for some reason.)

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