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WinRar Command line help

Zones: File Compression Utilities, MS DOS

Tags: command, winrar, line

OK, I want to compress certain files for about 80 users and rather than writing individual batch files for each person I just went and hid the folders of non-important files.

Now the problem I'm having is that WinRAR command line only seems to exlude hidden FILES, not folders. Which isn't really working for me, and I'd prefer to not hide all of thefiles. Is there a way to exclude hidden folders instead of files?? I know winZIP does it but well.....WinRAR is so much better.

Heres what my current test batch file looks like(E-mail is a hidden folder I want included)

         
             c:\"program files"\WinRaR\WinRAR a -u -r -Eh c:\"UserData"\"Plist.rar" c:\"UserData"\Plist\*.*
c:\"program files"\WinRaR\WinRAR a -u -r -Eh c:\"UserData"\"Plist.rar" c:\"UserData"\Plist\E-mail\*.*

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Zone: Software

Question Asked By: PCL3385

Solution Provided By: Barthax

Participating Experts: 1

Solution Grade: A

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Comment by Barthax

Let's see if we can't get this working then. :) If you have more then just the two directories, the add them onto the end of the SET USERS= line (with spaces between).

@ECHO OFF
SET USERS=Plist Plist2
SET DESTRAR=E:\data files\UserData\%1.rar
SET USERDIR=\\mglsrv1\UserData\%1
SET WINRAR="C:\Program Files\WinRAR\WinRAR.exe"
SET WINRARCMD=%WINRAR% a -u -r -esh

REM If nothing is supplied on the command line, do the workload from USERS
IF "%1" == "" FOR %%f in (%USERS%) DO CALL %0 %%f
REM If nothing is supplied on the command line, exit
IF "%1" == "" GOTO :EOF

REM Do all the files (only) in the root directory
ECHO Getting files in %USERDIR%
FOR %%f in (%USERDIR%\*.*) DO %WINRARCMD% "%DESTRAR%" "%%f"

ECHO Getting directories in %USERDIR%
REM Do all the directories which are visible
FOR /D %%f in (%USERDIR%\*) DO %WINRARCMD% "%DESTRAR%" "%%f\*.*"

ECHO Getting E-mail dir
%WINRARCMD% "%DESTRAR%" "%USERDIR%\E-mail\*.*"

:EOF

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