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Question

I want to zip a folder containing files. So inorder to do that i need to loop through the entire file list and execute 7za command. (7zip command line version)

Answer 1

If you are doing it from the command line, you don't have to escape the %, so %a is sufficient. You only need to use %%a from batch files.

Also, you wanna be selecting the files instead of executing "G:\Files Sample\zip\txt\*.txt" as a command, which is what the /f switch does in combination with single quotes. The full command would be: for %A in ("G:\Files Sample\zip\txt\*.txt") do 7za -tzip "%A.zip" "%A"