Re: creating multiple zip arhives?

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William Stokes wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have about 2500 jpeg pictures in a different subfolders (in a same tree).
> There are about 10 pics in each folder. I need to compress these pics to a
> zip files. All pics in one subfolder to one zip file. So this means that
> there should be about 250 zip files located in the same folder where the
> original pics were.
>
> Any idea how to script this? I tried powerarchiver commandline with no luck.
> I'm not experinced enough in scripting so help is Very Much apreciated.

Depending on the directory names, something along the lines of this should
do: (which is run in the tree root and is run straight from the command line)

for /R /D %I in (*) do zip "<target path>\%~nI.zip" "%~fI\*"

I created three test directories: 1, 2 and 3. Inside all were a few dummy
files. Inside 3 was a further directory, 3a, with a dummy file in it. The
above command produced 1.zip, 2.zip, 3.zip and 3a.zip, all in the <target
path> directory. One could also add the -m switch to delete source files,
but only after careful checking of the output.

If you could be a bit more specific about the directory structure and where
you'd like the zip files to end up, the command could be tweaked if it
doesn't provide what you need. I use the zip software from Info-ZIP:
http://www.info-zip.org/

If they're on an NT partition you could always enable file compression ;-)

HTH
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