# .zip files
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/zip-files/62226
**Category:** random
**Created:** [August 26, 2004, 2:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/zip-files/62226 "2004-08-26T02:03:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Xpeder](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Xpeder)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2004, 2:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/zip-files/62226/1 "2004-08-26T02:03:09Z")
[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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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2004, 5:44am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/zip-files/62226/2 "2004-08-26T05:44:47Z")
I’m in love with Perl, so I’d write a small Perl script to do it…
```auto
#!/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](http://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)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2004, 12:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/zip-files/62226/3 "2004-08-26T12:34:23Z")
You can also use WinAce
[www.winace.com](http://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”
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2004, 12:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/zip-files/62226/4 "2004-08-26T12:38:03Z")
I was just going to say that Fester, you could also use WinRar, it’s my favorite of all of them.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2004, 1:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/zip-files/62226/5 "2004-08-26T13:03:48Z")
> [@SureShot](#):
>
> I was just going to say that Fester, you could also use WinRar, it’s my favorite of all of them.
Right on bro :thumb:
WinRar runs the show.