The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff

I wanted to compress a few files from the current directory in a zip file using the 7z.exe command-line version of 7zip.

The trick is about finding where 7z.exe is as the directory containing 7z.exe is not in the Windows PATH.

Notes:

• you cannot use 7zExe as environment variable as it will class with %7 being a parameter.
• it uses a for loop with usebackq and space delims to do the parsing
• SortDateTime.bat fills the environment variables SortDate, SortTime and SortDateTime with the current values yyyymmdd, hhnnss and yyyymmddhhnnss for sortable archive naming
• if you use relative directory names as part of the file names, then that directory structure gets added to the zip file; if you don’t want that, then use absolute filenames or prepend the directories with a dot and the path-delimiter (/ in Linux, \ in Windows).

setlocal
call SortDateTime.bat
echo %SortDateTime% %SortDate%-%SortTime%

for /f "usebackq tokens=2* delims= " %%c in (`reg query "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\7-Zip" /v Path`) do (
  set sevenzExe="%%d7z.exe"
)
endlocal & if exist %sevenzExe% %sevenzExe% a -tzip _my-build.%SortDate%-%SortTime%.zip MyServer.exe MyServer.map MyClient.exe MyClient.map

pause

–jeroen