Can anyone recommend a good command-line zip utility I can use to automate zipping a lot of files with a script?
Good command-line zip utilities?
- Thread starter trmiv
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BTW, I forgot to mention it has to be free, because no way is my cheap-ass boss paying for a zip utility to make my life easier, god forbid he should do that.
Searching for DOS-rar leads me to like 500 "crackz" sites.
Searching for DOS-rar leads me to like 500 "crackz" sites.
http://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/arcers.html
try some of these....not sure which ones are free or not, but i though pkzip was free (free/shareware)
try some of these....not sure which ones are free or not, but i though pkzip was free (free/shareware)
OK, I found something. Apparently I'm too stupid to figure out the syntax though, because I can't get the damn thing to zip any files.
OK, nevermind. Turns out we have the 2000 server resource kit here which has compress.exe. works great.
Ugh, compress.exe refuses to create zip files that winzip can open. I can open them with winrar, but winzip is a no go. They have to work with winzip, which like 90% of our customers probably use.
Ugh, compress.exe refuses to create zip files that winzip can open. I can open them with winrar, but winzip is a no go. They have to work with winzip, which like 90% of our customers probably use.
tell your cheap ass boss its going to cost him, and to get used to it; considering his services arent free, why should someone else's be? if this was something you were doing at home id understand wanting something free, but for a business? my boss is a tight ass but even he will pay for something if its necesarry to the business, damn
lol, you're preaching to the choir here man. i just fired off an email to my boss requesting pkzip, and giving my reasons why. we'll see what happens.
Do you still need this commandline utility? If so, I can throw one together. I found a library that does zipping and unzipping and I don't mind writing the containing application. If you would like me to, what options would you like? Do you mind if this runs as a .NET application? The library I have is written in C#, and .NET is my preferred development environment right now.
what's wrong with WinRAR?
www.rarlabs.com
Theirs runs both CLI and GUI and have plenty of options.
-Spy
www.rarlabs.com
Theirs runs both CLI and GUI and have plenty of options.
-Spy
yes, that's the first one I found, i can't get it to zip any files, it insists the files im trying to zip are not valid. i must be doing something wrong, but i haven't had time to figure it out.
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