Compressing folders using Winrar

[superplay]

Hi Peeps

I have a top level folder say "A" with many subfolders underneath. E.G:

A-
B
C
D
E
.....

Using winrar can I compress the subfolders in a batch (rather than having to do each on manually) into separate archives, so I end up with "b.rar" "c.rar" "d.rar" and so on.


Cheers

 

[rpstewart]

It'll be tricky to do with winrar but you should have the command line equivalent rar.exe as well. Using that in a simple batch script should do what you need:

@setlocal
@echo off
set path="C:\Program Files\WinRAR\";%path%
for /D %%i in ('dir /ad/b') do rar a "%%i".rar "%%i"

If you're running Visat64 then you'll probably need to change the set path line to the correct path.

 

[superplay]

Thank you for your help it is appreciated

I had to modify the syntax slightly to make it work correctly.

for /D %%i in (*.) do rar a "%%i".rar "%%i"

replacing ('dir /ad/b') with (*.)