Often at work I need to copy data around and I use a niffy program called robocopy its built in to windows from at least 7 and above (not sure about vista & XP)
this is how I use it robocopy <source> <dest> /E /ZB /XJ /R:1 /W:1 /XF hiberfil.sys pagefile.sys
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Month: October 2014
Batch extract zip files
At work I needed to extract the contents from 600+ zip files to one place and select all, right click extract all did not work.
7-zip to the rescue, I used the command line version of 7-zip in a simple batch comand to loop through the files and extract each one
this code is written to be run from the same dir as the files to be extracted,
“C:\Program Files (x86)\7-Zip\7z” needs to be the location of the commandline version of 7-zip
“%CD%Backup files %x.zip” this the format of the files to be extracted in this case it was a series of sequentially numbered files all called “Backup files 1,2,3,etc”
It is run straight from the command prompt not as a batch script
“C:\extracted” is the destination of the extracted filesfor /l %x in (1, 1, 100) do "C:\Program Files (x86)\7-Zip\7z" x "%CD%Backup files %x.zip" -o C:\extracted
all in all about 20 mins work to write and test