I needed to compress a lot of files into individual zip archives – I did not want to do it manually 
Add the following to a bat file and every file with the extension txt will be compressed into a Zip archive with 7-Zip file archiver:
@echo off For %%f in (*.txt) do 7z.exe a -tzip %%f.zip %%f
E.g. a.txt will be compressed to the archive a.txt.zip
This was not exactly what I needed, as the dual extension caused problems in later processing. In needed to remove the extension preceding the zip extension – therefore:
@echo off For %%f in (*.txt) do 7z.exe a -tzip %%~nf.zip %%f
E.g. a.txt will be compressed to the archive a.zip
That’s it
Anders Lybecker is an chief architect at Avior A/S, a consultancy firm in Copenhagen, Denmark.
He holds a degree in software engineering specializing in software development.
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