How to write a batch file to compress subfolders inside themselves

Question

I'm very new to working with batch files but I'm trying to achieve the following

I have a folder C:\...\...\...\evidence In it are subfolders, the names of these can vary, can contain letters numbers and spaces. Let's say;

Equations

Microscopy

images

Data

10052011

What I'd like to do is compress all the contents of the subfolder into a file {Subfoldername}.zip so Equations.zip in equations and delete the now zipped contents.

I can use native zipping or 7zip and I can work with vb if necessary.

Let me make it clear. So you want to zip only subfolders, or all files (one by one) in the subfolders? — Happy Face, Aug 07 '15 at 09:05
take a look at this - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28043589/how-can-i-compress-zip-and-uncompress-unzip-files-and-folders-with-batch — npocmaka, Aug 07 '15 at 09:37

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 07 '15 at 14:20

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a look at the help output of 7za.exe is helpful. eg.

for /D %%a in (*) do (
  7za.exe a -r "%%a.zip" "%%a" && rmdir /s /q "%%a"
)

will iterate all folders, zip them recoursively, and then remove them if zipping was successful (returned 0).

answered Aug 07 '15 at 14:20

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