Hi, I need to zip all the .csv files in a folder file by file..i donot want to zip the entire folder..just the csv files in a folder... suppose i have 10 .csv files in a folder..then my .bat script should zip these 10.csv into 10 individual .zip files... this is because to save the space on the drive and if in future if we required a particular file we can reuse it... i tried using zip command in cmd prompt it is throwing a error like use binary mode... Please help me with a .bat script. Regards, Reshma

"i tried using zip command in cmd prompt it is throwing a error like use binary mode..." No tellin' what that means. ::===================== @echo off setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a in ('dir/b/a-d *.csv') do ( pkzip %%~Na %%a ) ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

Thanks for the script..but i am unable to zip using the pkzip command..the prompt was showing pkzip is not recognized as an internal or external command..i replaced it by zip command , it was working...but there are no file extensions for the files which were ziped...i need to have .zip extension..please help me how to keep the extension for the file which have been zipped. Regards, Reshma

What ZIP are you using? Maybe more to the point, why not use PKZIP which is very widely known. It's probably not going too far to say the PKZIP is the de facto standard. ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

Hi , If i am use pkzip i am getting the below error 'pkzip' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. I tried it on both os..winn xp and win server 2003. so i used only zip... Regards, Reshma

In order to use pkzip you need to HAVE pkzip. ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

Hi , we donot have any utility installed on our server.can't we use zip instead of pkzip. Regards, Reshma