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zip a list of files whose file names are in a text file

How to zip a list of files whose file names are contained in a file.

For example, I have a file contains 10 file names with full path of the file name. I like to zip the 10 files into one zip file. How can I do it?

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Brian Pringle

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fungfat

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Thanks btpringle. Very thorough answer. I have only the "evaluated" version, and no "command line" extension, so I cannot do the zipping with filelist yet. But I believe I have it in the office.

I check the site you gave me and find all the parameters for the command line to zip with a file that contains the list of file names. It is like the following:

winzip -min -a -r myfile.zip filenames.txt
where
-min is to run in minimized mode
-a is to add files to the zip file
-r is for recursive, meaning include all subfolders
myfile.zip is the result file
filelist.txt contains all the file names to be zipped

Merete

the full version of winrar will do this, put them in a folder give it a name, ( TEM ) for an example purpose only,
then simply highlight the entire 10 and r/click them choose Add toTEMrar
It will either produce one RAR or if the files exceed a ceratin size it will spit them out into separate rar numbered 1 to the end.
Large files/games movies anything even over 1 gig in size are compressed like this.
WinRAR
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR

http://www.win-rar.com/

fungfat

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One mistake. There must be a '@' in front of the filelist.txt to indicate to winzip that the file contains a list of files.