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File compression using WINRAR command line utility on Windows Server 2003 machine
Posted on 2011-03-08
I have to write a batch file to use WinRAR cmd line utility which creates an archive in .zip format, which can be opened by any machine without WinRAR. I also need to copy the list of files archived to a .txt file, which will act as a log file for me to see whether the operation was successful or not. I was able to create a .rar file using rar.exe and was able to redirect the output to a .txt file using
"C:\Program Files\WinRAR\rar.exe" a -m5 -ed "c:\Supreeth\resources.rar
However, the resources.rar requires only WinRAR to extract. All the files archived were added in log.txt.
I used
"C:\Program Files\WinRAR\winrar.exe" a -afzip -m5 -ed "c:\Supreeth\resources.zip
cts\MyProject\resources" >"C:\Supreeth\log.txt"
The resources.zip file created can be opened by a machine which doesn't have winrar. But, I was not able to log all the files archived.
I want to create a .zip file and log the files archived as well. Please help
"C:\Program Files\WinRAR\rar.exe" a -m5 -ed "c:\Supreeth\resources.rar
However, the resources.rar requires only WinRAR to extract. All the files archived were added in log.txt.
I used
"C:\Program Files\WinRAR\winrar.exe" a -afzip -m5 -ed "c:\Supreeth\resources.zip
cts\MyProject\resources" >"C:\Supreeth\log.txt"
The resources.zip file created can be opened by a machine which doesn't have winrar. But, I was not able to log all the files archived.
I want to create a .zip file and log the files archived as well. Please help
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I haven't used win-rar lately, but 7Zip can do what you want. It is a Free open source archiver that supports Zip, Rar and many other formats.
C:\Program Files\7-Zip>7z a -tzip -mx5 c:\Supreeth\resources.zip C:\Proje
cts\MyProject\resource > C:\Supreeth\log.txt
This command should work.
7Zip can be found at:
http://sourceforge.net/pro
C:\Program Files\7-Zip>7z a -tzip -mx5 c:\Supreeth\resources.zip C:\Proje
cts\MyProject\resource > C:\Supreeth\log.txt
This command should work.
7Zip can be found at:
http://sourceforge.net/pro
I was using 7-zip all these days. But the file size grew beyond 6 GB and 7-zip is giving me an error saying "Can't allocate enough memory". So, I was looking for other compression utils and WinRAR was able to compress my file which was more than 6 GB. Can you please help me with this?
This may be a weird hack, I downloaded WinRAR to test it out, but I can not seem to find a way to get WinRAR to list files or play nice with archives that are not RAR format. Perhaps you can compress with WinRAR then test the archive with 7Zip.
Example:
start /w "C:\Program Files\WinRAR\winrar.exe" a -afzip -v -m5 -ed c:\Supreeth\resources.zip C:\Projects\MyProject\reso
Since the archive will already exist, you should be able to avoid the memory allocation issues. You can add " -ilogc:\Supreeth\ErrorLog.
Example:
start /w "C:\Program Files\WinRAR\winrar.exe" a -afzip -v -m5 -ed c:\Supreeth\resources.zip C:\Projects\MyProject\reso
Since the archive will already exist, you should be able to avoid the memory allocation issues. You can add " -ilogc:\Supreeth\ErrorLog.
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