Is there a way to:
1)LOCATE files with a known file extension on a known Drive and
2)send them to a zip file on windows XP desktop?

I know XP has a zip function, not sure what it's CALLED....could it be used instead of an old pkzip exec.

Also: how do you determine the Short File Name with XP as "Open Command Prompt Here" shows only Long File Names.
Actually PKZip is better suited for this task...have you read the PKZip Help files ? ?Apparently microsoft made it impossible to use command line to do this. Bottom line I still need a way, without software installation to locate files of a particular extension, compile them in a single file for emailing. What about using makecab.exe for the compiling??

Usage:

MAKECAB [/V[n]] [/D var=value ...] [/L dir] source [destination]

MAKECAB [/V[n]] [/D var=value ...] /F directive_file [...]

source File to compress.

destination File name to give compressed file. If omitted, the last character of the source file name is replaced with an underscore (_) and used as the destination.

/F directives A file with MakeCAB directives (may be repeated). Refer to Microsoft Cabinet SDK for information on directive_file.

/D var=value Defines variable with specified value.

/L dir Location to place destination (default is current directory).

/V[n] Verbosity level (1..3).


Let me clarify:

1) I need to go to a specific hard drive (EXAMPLE: D:\)

CD D:\

2) From there I need to locate all files, including those in any sub-directories with a particular file extension(EXAMPLE: *.mp3)

If exists *.mp3

3) Copy them to a folder called (EXAMPLE: MYMP3Z)

echo | Y copy file to MYMP3Z

4) Convert the folder or all files in the folder into a single file either .zip, .cab....whatever(EXAMPLE: MYMP3Z.CAB)

pkzip D:\MP3Z\*.* C:\Documents and Settings\John Doe\Desktop\MP3Z.zip

5) Place that file on the windows desktop(EXAMPLE: C:\Documents and Settings\John Doe\Desktop)

6) Delete the folder MYMP3Z

ECHO | Y DEL D:\MP3Z\*.*
RD D:\MP3Z

I don't think PKZIP for DOS can do all of that.

I may also need to a DOS zip executable to the Windows\System32 Directiry prior to running.



ionic,
Iam using 7-zip software for zipping and unzipping files using batch file.


http://www.7-zip.org/download.html

Download the .exe file from the above link and install on ur pc.

suppose u r installed in c:\programfiles\
Please assign the path in envirnomental variables (my computer--properties) ---system variables---path .
say: c:\programfiles\7z paste this path in the system variables---path

cmd for unzpping:
7z e c:\a.zip -oc:\

-o : output dir.
unzips the a.zip to a.txt file

cmd for zipping :
7z a -tzip c:\b.zip c:\a.txt
zips the a.txt to b.zip

Save the cmd in .bat format and execute

Hope this may help you.

regards,
chinna


I am currently playing around with XCOPY to copy the files from directories and subdirectories and place them in a specified folder. From there I can run a zip app to place them in one file where I want.

Not sure if XCOPY can copy only the files from a directory and subdirectories without maintaining the folder structure.

This is what I have come up with thus far:


@ECHO OFF
MD D:\TXTZ

XCOPY I:\*.txt D:\TXTZ\ /n

PKZIP -es -m -rp -r- D:\MYTXTZ.ZIP D:\TXTZ\*.*

IF EXISTS D:\MYTXTZ.ZIP (
ECHO Y|RD D:\TXTZ /s /q
)ELSE(
ECHO Missing file "MYTXTZ.ZIP"
)
exit

The results: Although I included the full path where XCOPY should find files, it copies files from where the batch file is located, in this case on the desktop. XCOPY did not copy any files in subfolders on the desktop.
If I set the switch for XCOPY to Coy folders and subfolders except empty ones with /S it does copy them, but
I'd rather leave the folders out of the equation.

PKZIP worked fine

RMDIR did not delete the folder D:\TXTZ I think I'm stuck here. Any help would be appreciated. I think it should work but I need to lookup the switch options. Then again, maybe xcopy is not the right way to go.Try HereYou're making this harder than it has to be. You had all the pseudo-code laid out, all you needed to do was code it up:

Code: [Select]cd /d d:\
for /f "tokens=* delims=" %%x in ('dir /s /b /a:-d *.mp3') do (
copy "%%x" d:\mymp3z
)
cscript scriptname.vbs
rd d:\mymp3z /s/q

The cscript is below. You can indeed use Window's built-in zip ROUTINES; you just can't use batch code.

Code: [Select]strTargetFile = "C:\Documents and Settings\John Doe\Desktop\MP3Z.zip"

Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set zip = fso.CreateTextFile(strTargetFile)
zip.Write Chr(80) & Chr(75) & Chr(5) & Chr(6) & String(18, 0)
zip.Close
WScript.Sleep 500

Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
Set objFile = objShell.NameSpace(strTargetFile)
Set src = objShell.NameSpace("d:\MYMP3Z")

objFile.CopyHere src
WScript.Sleep 30000

Save the script (the name has to match the batch file reference) in the same directory as the batch file and with a vbs extension.

The Copyhere method runs asynchronous to the batch file. I built in a 30 second time delay but you may have to increase it based on the size and number of the mp3 files. The time interval on the sleep method is measured in milliseconds. This is important as you do not want to remove the mymp3z directory before you finish zipping the files.

Good luck. Quote from: Sidewinder on January 03, 2008, 02:16:23 PM

You're making this harder than it has to be. You had all the pseudo-code laid out, all you needed to do was code it up:

You're also ignoring how powerful PKZip is/was...it went outside of DOS/batch limitations in alot of ways way before it's time and it would be a good learning experience to do some more research along with the link i provided...

When I tested my original code, it worked fine! I'm very surprised the TEXTZ.zip file did not end up in C:\docume~1\brianb~1\desktop. I'm going to take it on faith that brianb~1 is your account.