Batch file script to zip files

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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.

batch-file windows
9 Answers

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.

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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
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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
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