Windows – Batch file to ZIP only files in directory or sub directory

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I wanted to know if possible how to create a command line to do the following – if a directory exist ZIP only the contents into a ZIP file. If a directory has sub-directories ZIP only the contents into another ZIP file.

Example:

C:\Directory\sample.txt ZIP only sample.txt
C:\Directory\Directory1\sample1.txt ZIP only sample1.txt
C:\Directory\Directory1\Directory2\sample2.txt ZIP only sample2.txt

So it would have created 3 zip files in C:\Directory and sub-directories.

I will not know the name of the sub-directories so can I also assign some sort of variable that says if there are directories or sub-directories in C:\Directory then start above ZIP(s)?

Thank you,

Paul

Best Answer

Put this in batch file:

REM Usage: ZipFilesRecursively.bat "C:\My Files"
for /R "%~f1" %%F in (*) do 7z a "%%~dpFfiles.zip" "%%F"

It compresses all and only all files to files.zip archive created in C:\My Files directory and all its subdirectories.

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Don't worry, created a Python script that done it for me. If anyone comes across this and needs something similar here is my code:

import glob, os, zipfile

zipfiles = glob.glob("*.zip") ## find all files with zip extension in current directory

count = 0 ## current file

while (count < len(zipfiles)):
    print ("Extracting file: "+zipfiles[count])

    zipRef = zipfile.ZipFile(zipfiles[count]) ## make ready for extraction

    directoryToMake = zipfiles[count] ## iniital name for extraction directory

    isMultiDisk = zipfiles[count].find('Disk') ## search for 'Disk' in the directory name and store location

    if (isMultiDisk > 0): ## has found 'Disk' in the name
        print("Multi Disk")
        if (len(directoryToMake[isMultiDisk+4:-4]) < 2): ## checks to see if the disk number is more than 2 characters long
                                                         ## not actually checking the number just the number of characters
                                                         ## to account for some names being DiskA rather than Disk1
            directoryToMake = directoryToMake[:-10] ## remove everything after the Disk to make the clean directory name
        else:
            directoryToMake = directoryToMake[:-11] ## remove extra char for disk numbers of 2 digits
    else: ## disk not found in name
        print("Single Disk")
        directoryToMake = directoryToMake[:-4] ## just remove the .zip at the end

    if not os.path.exists(directoryToMake): ## check if directory exists
        print("Creating Directory: " + directoryToMake)
        os.makedirs(directoryToMake) ## if not make it

    print("Extracting files into directory: " + directoryToMake+ "\n")
    zipRef.extractall(directoryToMake) ## extract into directory

    count += 1

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