Brian Jester

I am not sure to have understood whther the required "recursiveness" that you need is in the drive directory structure or within the .RAR archives. unsure.gif After checking through my folder structure, I am going to need recursive(ness) in both, the directory structure as well as inside the rar and zip files Can you post the code to do this? I am lost with the for /R Thank you -Brian

Hi again, I have another dilema...I am now trying to delete a certain type of file from inside the archives (zip / rar) that are sub-directories deep...Let me explain the folder structure: Games > 2000 > 2001 > 2002 > 2003 > 2004 > 2005 > 2006 > 2007 > 2008 For example: You have have in the 2000 folder (note 2000 is a subfolder under Games) file.zip or file.rar. I need to delete a file inside file.zip or file.rar (depending what archive type is in that folder). I already tried using this code, but unfortuanetly it won't delete inside the archive if it's inside sub-folders. I've tried something like this: for %%i in (*.zip) do "WinRAR.exe" d -r %%i *.avi But that will only work if the the batch file is in the same directory as the archives. I need to be able to work recursively. I just looked in the Winrar help file, but this doesn't seem possible using the 'd' command with the -r switch...Is there another way to accomplish this task? Hello, is there not a single soul that can help me get this code to work? Or something entirely different that will work? Thanks again! -Brian

Acronyms can be ugly. Lol...I will have yet to find out When I change that code, this is the result on renaming the default zip files you sent me: brianjester1.zip renames to: shortfir.zip In case you don't have those descriptions, here's the description in that file: short first word jaclaz

Close, but I want the filename to be 8 characters, and I have files with ~ in the name, I need those removed too Not the first word, but the first letter of each word...Like I said, the txt file has NO MORE THAN 8 words. Thank you for the help! -Brian

They are different, but they are all txt extensions, so I guess a wildcard trick should do. *.txt Thanks! -Brian

Without having to post files, I will say that the zip files contain 2 files inside, one is a sound file, and another is a text file containing the long filename, so basically what I want to do is use that long to extract a dos > 8.3 compatible filename name from it, and apply it to the zip file. Every description inside the text file is no more than 8 DIFFERENT words. I already know that. Thanks for the help! -Brian

Could you show something that * Could * work? If it's something using server side scripting such as php, I could try that, but I am not good enough to code it from scratch...I am looking for something already done. Please post complete *working* scripts. Thanks! -Brian

Hi, Can you tell how I can go about batch renaming Zip archives based on the contents of text files which are already inside the zip files? Here's an example of what I need done: File.zip contains a text file and the File.zip will be renamed based on the First character of each word inside the text file...So for example if the text file inside the zip says: Here is a description Filename will then be renamed to: hiad.zip Thank you! -Brian