.zip files

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[color=black][font=Times New Roman][font=Verdana][size=2]I have 760 or so files that I would like to compress into zip files I do not want to make them all into one big file I need all the files into separate zip archives so I would have 760 zip files. Any ideas on how to do it without doing it one by one?[/size][/font][/font][/color]

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I’m in love with Perl, so I’d write a small Perl script to do it…


#!/usr/bin/perl
opendir DIR, ".";
my @fns;
while ($fn = readdir(DIR)) {
  push(@fns, $fn);
}
closedir DIR;
foreach @fns {
  ($fn, $ext) = /^(.*)\.(.*?)$/;
  `pkzip -a $fn $_`;
}

You can get a free version of Perl for Windows at www.activestate.com. You’ll also need the command line version of PKZIP for the script to work. I think version 2.04g was the last free one. You could substitute another command line zipper if you want…

(Disclaimer: The code isn’t tested)

3

You can also use WinAce
www.winace.com

You can tell it to make each file an individual library and have one File that extracts them all. I am not sure this is what your looking for though thats more for breaking down files for more user friendly “chunks”

4

I was just going to say that Fester, you could also use WinRar, it’s my favorite of all of them.

5

Right on bro :thumb:

WinRar runs the show.