Hi John,
The FOR/DO will iterate through the directory listing using "ex*.log" and
then perform a WINZIP for each item.
The /R makes it recursive (meaning, including subfolders) - which is what
you want.
&&f is one item in the directory list (the path to one log file at a time).
~ modifies an item from the directory list, specifically:
~dpn takes only the drive, path and filename (leave out the extension)
So:
%%~dpnF.zip
means, take the directory item %%F, put use only the drive:/Path/Filename
and append ".zip".
In other words the Winzip command will look like that
WINZIP -m -ex -Td01 c:\Path\exDDMMYY.log c:\Path\exDDMMYY.zip.
for each of youu log files in all of your subfolders.
Best Regards
Andy Schmidt
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Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 06:09 PM
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Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: Help with WinZip command line
> I just use the winzip command line tool every day to turn the 1 day
> old "log" file into a "zip" file by the SAME name in the SAME
> location. This way, you can simply move anything *.zip to a different
> drive, while *.log are "current" log files.
>
> Here is the content of my Compress2DayOldLogs.cmd file:
>
> C:
> CD "C:\WINNT\system32\LogFiles\"
> FOR /R %%f in (ex*.log) do "C:\Program Files\WinZip\WZzip.exe" -m -ex
-Td01
> %%~dpnf.zip %%f
OK, can some one please explain the logic of this line. This appears to be
what I need to do. My understanding is that it is only calling the winzip
command to a specific file name.
John T
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