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This guide covers the use of two free archiving utilities, the command line add on utility for IZArc and the command line version for 7 Zip. These two utilities were chosen because they are free, work well, and include a CLI executable or have it available as a separate add on as for IZArc. Using either of these utilities to automate your archiving needs is fairly easy to do, costs nothing, and saves time. Although this guide is designed to enable the user to accomplish this task quickly and easily, it is assumed that the reader is already familiar with creating and using batch files and has some experience with using compression utilities. Win. XP was used to verify the information in this guide. Step 1. Download one of the following 3. The versions used for this guide were 7 Zip Command Line Version 4. Winrar 4.65 Full Version Portable' title='Winrar 4.65 Full Version Portable' />IZArc Version 4. IZArc Command line Add On Version 1. Note This guide uses the Command Line Version of 7 Zip 7za. Zip that supports only the 7z, cab, zip, gzip, b Z and the tar formats. The full version of 7 Zip installable and portable versions contains a command line executable Zip help files. The IZArc command line utility is an add on to IZArc and supports the zip, jar, bh, cab, and the lha formats. Step 2. Install the utility and set the path variable. For 7 Zip Extract the 7 Zip file to a location of your choice, for example C 7 For convenience and to make the 7 Zip commands available to the batch file, manually set the path variable for the chosen location, e. C 7 To set the path, right click My Computer Properties Advanced Tab Environment Variables. In the System Variables Area, select path, then click the Edit button. Add C 7zip or your folder location to the end of the line dont include the quotes and dont forget the semicolon at the start and end. Hit OK three times. For IZArc First, install the IZArc utility and then install the IZArc Command line Add on to their default locations C Program FilesIZArc by double clicking them. The IZArc Command line Add on will install the Command line executables izarcc and izarce to the IZArc directory in C Program FilesIZArc. The Path Variable is not set automatically during the installation, so it must be done manually. To set the Path, right click My Computer Properties Advanced Tab Environment Variables. In the System Variables Area, select path, then click the Edit button. Add C Program FilesIZArc to the end of the line dont include the quotes but dont leave out the semicolon at the start. Hit OK three times. Step 3. Test the installation. Open a CMD window by hitting the Start button, enter cmd and press OK. A command line window will open. Type one of the following into the command prompt window For 7 Zip Type 7za and then press ENTER. If installed correctly, you should see the usage commands for 7 zip as shown in the top left thumbnail click the picture to enlarge For IZArc Type izarcc and then press ENTER. If installed correctly, you should see the usage commands for IZArc as shown in the top right thumbnail click the pictures to enlarge and view content Note For IZArc, the command line executables are izarcc for the compression function and izarce for the extraction function. If you didnt get one of the screens shown above, then check that the Path Variables are present and correct for the 7 Zip or IZArc installation. Step 4. Create the batch file. ZipPortable.png' alt='Winrar 4.65 Full Version Portable' title='Winrar 4.65 Full Version Portable' />Download winrar no need of any key already registered try it just for one time dont miss this link httpprogramesdaily. 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Depending on which utility you wish to use, click one of the following links to open the batch file text in a new window where you can cut and paste it into your text editor or download it testizarc. IZArc or test. 7ip. Zip. Note if you use either one of these batch files be sure to change the extension to. C drive, and copy some files you want to zip to the testzip folder. Of course you can change either batch file for your own needs using a text editor to change the zip folder testzip and move folder testmove to folders of your choice. Zip batch file test. Computer Software Skills List Resume. C testmovexxxxTODAY. Swf Serial Connection Over Ethernet here. C testzip mx. Zip command line executable. C testmovexxxxTODAY. TODAY is todays date and time variable added to the zip archive name to insure a unique archive name is created each time the batch file is executed. The parentheses are optional unless there are spaces in the file path. Finally,. zip is the type of archive to be created. C testzip required the files to be archived. All the files with an extension in the folder testzip this includes any subfolders regardless of the r switch setting, see use below. In this case, its zip mode, compression level 5 level 5 is normal compression which is the default level. When using the zip format and normal compression, the optional switches can be eliminated and the command shortened as shown below 7za a C testmovexxxxTODAY. C testzipConcerning subfolders Officially, the r switch is used for searchingand unless included, recurse subdirectories is disabled. However, because of a glich in the program, the zip command always includes subfolders regardless of r switch setting in situations where all files in a folder are to be archived using the wildcards. For this reason, the r switch is not used in any of the 7 Zip example commands in this guide. See 7 Zip forum topic or 7 Zip FAQs Why doesnt r switch work as expected IZArc command line in the IZArc batch file testizarc. C testmovexxxxTODAY. C testzipizarcc starts the izarcc compression executable. C testmovexxxxTODAY. TODAY is todays date and time variable added to the zip archive name to insure that a unique archive name is created each time the batch file is executed. The parentheses are optional unless there are spaces in the file path.