example
There is a file "sample.rar".
Folder structure is: "rising\dawn\ and here there are many (folders1, folders2 and file1, file2)" in this archive.
i have used following command
7z.exe x "sample.rar" "rising\dawn\*" -oi:\delete
The result is:
all files and folders in "rising\dawn\" are extracted to "i:\delete" folder but the empty parent folders "rising\dawn\" are also created in destination folder.
e.g. destination looks:
i:\delete\rising\dawn\folder1\file1.bmp
i:\delete\rising\dawn\folder2\subfolder
i:\delete\rising\dawn\file1.txt
i:\delete\rising\dawn\file2.txt
i don't want "rising\dawn\" empty folders to be created but the folder structure there onwards must be as is in the archive.
i want the result:
i:\delete\folder1\file1.bmp
i:\delete\folder2\subfolder
i:\delete\file1.txt
i:\delete\file2.txt
at last i found a way out solution. thanks to the winrar support. i have accepted it as an answer below.
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Finally this gave me the result.
Thanks to winrar support.
rar x -ep1 sample.rar rising\dawn\* d:\e\delete\
i have tried other answers given here, this is the only correct answer.
don't forget to upvote.
You can extract the archive normally and
1) move the lower level folder/files to where you would like it, then
2) remove the extra top level archive folders.
Code to do so will depend on the exact task.
Using e command instead of x and add -r option works well.
Like this:
7z.exe e -r "sample.rar" "rising\dawn\*" -oi:\delete
My executable version is "7-Zip [64] 9.20 2010-11-18",
And the platform is Windows 8.1.
This command line eliminates unnecessary parent folders and preserves the hierarchy of folders.
You need to use the e command rather than the x command:
7z.exe e "sample.rar" "scholar\update\*" -oi:\delete
Using e instead of x means 7zip will extract all matching files into the same folder (as specified via the -so switch, or the current directory if this isn't specified) rather than preserving the folder structure from inside the archive.
Related
The Goal:
How to use .gitignore to exclude all folders & files except PowerShell $Profile?
The answer should help expand the current exception file list to more files in other subfolders. If possible, reduce wildcards to minimum, and use as specific as possible (full/fuller file path). Why? For instance, Book1.xlsx may exist in multiple subfolders but I want to be able to choose only the specific desired subfolders.
Thanks in advance!
Current status:
On Windows 10 (not Linux Distros):
git init initiated on top level directory C:\. [Please don't suggest to start from other subfolders. Just remain with C:\, as I will include more files to the exception list]
C:\.gitignore containing the below:
# Ignore All
/*
# Exception List [eg. PowerShell's $Profile (please use FULL/FULLER FILE PATH, if possible)]
!.gitignore
!Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1
!Users/John/Documents/WindowsPowerShell/Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1
!Users\John\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1
!C:/Users/John/Documents/WindowsPowerShell/Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1
!C:\Users\John\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1
With the above codes, git status successfully returned only .gitignore as 1 untracked file. Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1 remained missing from untrack listing.
I've tried alternative ways (wildcard, partial subfolder name with pattern, etc) but all failed to return the fuller file path PowerShell $Profile.
My team faces the need to encrypt all files in a repository with AES256. For this purpose, we decided we are going to zip all files with such encryption, using the same key for all of them.
The problem we have is that these files sit in a NAS, so from windows boxes they are accessible by \ to them.
The directory structure is something like this:
Original Structure:
Root
-1
|--folder1
|---file1.ext
|---file2.ext
|--folder2
|---filea.ext
|---fileb.ext
|--folder2.a
|---filec.ext
and so on...
Essentially, what we need is to have all the original files contained in a zip file, keeping their original names, which would be something like this:
Desired Outcome:
|-Root
|-1
|--folder1
|---file1.zip
|---file2.zip
|--folder2
|---filea.zip
|---fileb.zip
|--folder2a
|---filec.zip
and so on...
To accomplish this, we tried a batch script that calls 7zip, but it only works if it's run from the root directory, which is something we cannot use as the files are not in a server.
Here is the syntax of the batch script we came up with:
FOR /R %%i IN ("*.wmv") DO "C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" a -mx0 -tzip -pPasswordHere "%%~dpni.zip" "%%i"
But, as wrote previously, it only works when run from the root folder, which is something we cannot do as files sit on a network location.
Mapping the drive or making a symbolic link to it doesn't do the trick either.
I've also checked on 7zip to do this, namely, making use of its "-r" operator, but I couldn't find a way to get the desired outcome (namely, recurse through all folders in the remote tree structure -there are a lot of them...- and keep the original file name).
I'm open to any suggestions as any kind of script, trick or guizmo that gets the job done will be more than welcome. =)
Thanks a million in advance!,
Sebas.
----SOLUTION----
I actually found a sollution here, mapping the drive in a different way (it's so simple it just made me feel stupid(er), but it's altogheter beautiful).
Using the batch script below, the remote share can be mapped like so:
You can map a drive using
net use X: \\server\directory
and then you can change to that directory using
pushd X:
(Post from which the answer was taken from: Batch File Iterating through files on a local network server)
Suppose I have a directory structure like
C:\Users\Desktop\abc\d
I want to rar archive the abc folder so that the structure of rar is:
abc\d
When I try using powershell to archive, winrar replicates the full path inside the archive, like:
\Users\Desktop\abc\d
I dont want the full path to be created inside the archive
Here's the script:
https://gist.github.com/saurabhwahile/50f1091fb29c2bb327b7
What am I doing wrong?
Use the command line:
Rar.exe a -r -ep1 Test.rar "C:\Users\Desktop\abc"
Rar.exe is the console version of WinRAR stored in same directory as WinRAR.exe. You can use this command line also with WinRAR.exe if you want to see the compression process in a graphic window.
a is the command and means add files to archive.
-r is a switch to recursively add all files and subdirectories including empty subdirectories to the archive.
-ep1 is another switch which results in execluding base directory.
For this command line the base directory is "C:\Users\Desktop\" and therefore the created archive Test.rar contains only abc and all files and subdirectories in directory abc which is what you want.
One more hint: Using the command line
Rar.exe a -r -ep1 Test.rar "C:\Users\Desktop\abc\"
results in adding all files and subdirectories of directory abc to the archive, but without directory name abc being also stored in the archive. The backslash at end makes this difference.
In other words: On using switch -ep1 everything up to last backslash in file/directory specification is not added to the archive.
For more information about available switches see the text file Rar.txt in the program files directory of WinRAR.
I see no way to set destination directory or file here: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~quake/triangle.switch.html
Actually, the program places result file in the same directory, even if current directory is different.
Why? Is ti possible to change?
The output files for the program are generated from the input file names. You can see this from the source code on line 3586
strcpy(b->outnodefilename, b->innodefilename);
...
strcat(b->outnodefilename, ".node");
strcat(b->outelefilename, ".ele");
...
Because of that I don't think there is a way to set the output directory as an option. It seems you will need to manually copy the output files to a different directory
cp output.node your/output/dir/output.node && rm output.node
I have a Perl script that needs to delete a directory with all its contents.
Sometimes this directory contains a junction point into another directory. If I rmtree() naively, the rmtree() call will also delete all the files inside the target folder of the junction. I'm looking for a way to not do that, and instead just remove the junction.
Non Perl solutions would also be appreciated.
I just typed "junction point" into Google and found my way to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_junction_point
Command Prompt (cmd.exe)
The dir
command in Windows 2000 or later
recognizes junction points, displaying
instead of in
directory listings (use dir with the
/A or /AL command-line switch).
Any
commands that would normally affect
files inside a normal directory will
act the same here. Thus the command
del myjunction should not be used —
this will just delete all the files in
the targeted directory.
The commands
rmdir and move work fine with
junctions, with the caveat that move
won't let the junction move to another
volume (as opposed to Windows
Explorer, as mentioned above.)
The
rmdir command is safe in that it only
deletes the junction point, not the
targeted files. Whilst walking through
the directory with the command line
interface, files can be deleted, but
unlike explorer, directories can also
be deleted (using rmdir /s dirname for
example.)
Using the linkd command with
the /d switch is a safe way to delete
junction points.
From what I can see you can, for example, use dir and grep the output for <JUNCTION> or use the Windows rmdir. I think you can use either of these from Perl via system.
To find out where are the reparse points (or "junction points", if you will):
dir /a:l /b > myjunctions.txt
Will show all reparse points in the current directory. You can add /s, but beware that reparse points inside reparse points will be listed as well.
Suppose myjunctions.txt contains the line x:\subdir\foo. To remove it, you issue
fsutil reparsepoint "x:\subdir\foo"
And voilá! Your junction point is gone, and the original directory is untouched!
FastCopy utility does this: http://ipmsg.org/tools/fastcopy.html.en
I am using this program for copying or deleting folders that may contain junctions as subfolders so that the junction targets remain untouched. The junction points are properly copied while copying, even when the target drive is different.
Windows Explorer at least in Windows 7 Ultimate works also as wanted while deleting - junction targets remain intact.
But copying folders that contain junctions as subfolders in Explorer still does not work as intended - it actually does something that I cannot yet perhaps quite entirely describe: the junction folders seem to be copied as normal folders, but their content is empty.