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by stugreene
20 May 2010 07:12
Forum: DOS Batch Forum
Topic: Help with long filenames in batch loop
Replies: 6
Views: 9263

Re: Help with long filenames in batch loop

aGerman,

Thanks, that worked perfectly!
by stugreene
19 May 2010 15:53
Forum: DOS Batch Forum
Topic: Help with long filenames in batch loop
Replies: 6
Views: 9263

Re: Help with long filenames in batch loop

Thanks for the reply, but when I do that: for %%a in ("weekly status update*.*") do zip "%%a" "%%~na.zip" I get: zip "weekly" "weekly.zip" zip warning: name not matched: weekly.zip If I leave off the double-quotes in the do command, I get: zip weekly...
by stugreene
19 May 2010 14:13
Forum: DOS Batch Forum
Topic: Help with long filenames in batch loop
Replies: 6
Views: 9263

Help with long filenames in batch loop

I want to create a batch file to zip several files into separate archive files. The files in question look like: weekly status update 20080229.xls weekly status update 20080321.xls etc. I want to preserve the long filename but just make it a .zip file my batch file reads: for /f %%a in ('dir /b &quo...