A Day with Winrar All I wanted to do was exclude folders and their contents using wildcards, and even after reading the docs, it turned into a guessing game... So my test bed looks like: C:\!tmp...

I am really new to batch file coding and need your help. I've these directories: c:\rar\temp1\xy.jpg c:\rar\temp1\sd.jpg c:\rar\temp1\dd.jpg c:\rar\temp2\ss.jpg c:\rar\temp2\aa.jpg c:\rar\temp2\...

I have been trying to extract an ISO image through 7zip and WinRar. Here is the command line that I used: 7z x -y "%Isocontents%\ISO.iso" -o%Newfolder% WinRar.exe x -y -ow "%Isocont...

I am trying to write a batch script that will run automatically compressing subdirectories using winrar or 7-zip: Example: My Pictures Pics1 (Pics1.zip) File1.jpg File2.jpg File3.jpg Pics2 ...

I'm using the following winrar command line to create zip archives: rar.exe a -df -ep -ag[yyyyMMddhhmmss] -ms[txt] C:\MyZipFile.zip C:\tmp\MyFiles*.txt The archives created are in RAR format ins...

I have a pretty big folder (~10GB) that contains many duplicated files throughout it's directory tree. Many of these files are duplicated up 10 times. The duplicated files don't reside side b...

So currently my users download a zipfile, unzip it and then run setup.exe - I would like them to do this with one click. Using http://www.wikihow.com/Use-7Zip-to-Create-Self-Extracting-excutables i...

I am trying to create a self-extracting archive that extracts to "%USERPROFILE%\Desktop" with WinRar. However, when I run it, it extracts to the SFX's current directory, not my desktop. Does the pa...

Using the WinRAR command line (C:\Program Files\WinRAR\rar.exe), all I'm trying to do is compress a single folder (C:\Users\%username%\desktop\someFolder) and possibly change the name of the .zip f...

I'm trying to crack winrar's password using some methods as explained below. Because rar uses AES-128 encryption, brute-force and dictionary attacks are useless as they would take years. But, if ...

While trying to extract zip files I get the error: c:\path\name.zip is not RAR archive No files to extract My code is: p.StartInfo.FileName = @"C:\Program Files\WinRAR\rar.exe"; p.StartInfo....

I am using this simple command to zip files into an archive with WinRar. winrar a -afzip -ep1 "C:\ok.zip" "C:\ok" But if something is running (for example a simple .exe) from that director...

I want to get a list of files and preferably uncompressed file size via winrar command line. How do i do this? and how do i do this with a password? From the doc it looks like i use -pPASSWORD

WinRAR is giving me the 260 character limit error on a path/filename that is only 216 characters long. See below. The reason is the extraction destination is a temporary folder that is tool l...

I wanted to create a batch file that can make a zip file from a folder that I put in the script. Here's my script: @REM ------- BEGIN xpi.bat ---------------- @setlocal @echo off set path="C:\Prog...

I've seen executables that extract themselves and run a compressed setup.exe afterwards: a double click on the file uncompresses it and then runs the formerly compressed setup.exe. How can I...

I have a 3rd-party installer program that I would like for my users to be able to download and run as a pre-requisite to an application that I have written. The installer can take parameters that a...

With most Linux distributions dropping gzip and bzip2 in favor of LZMA2 for compressing their packages, and many open source implementations for many platforms, I wonder: Shouldn't we lay DEF...