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Already solved, many thanks to bozhou!!



Hello everyone, I want to batch-generate self-extracting files. How should the batch file be written?


I want to create the above a directory as the self-extracting file a.exe, the b directory as the self-extracting file b.exe, and the c directory as the self-extracting file c.exe — these three self-extracting files (the generated EXE filename should be based on the folder name). Also, after a.exe is extracted it should create a shortcut pointing to a/a1.exe, after b.exe is extracted it should create a shortcut pointing to b/b1.exe, and after c.exe is extracted it should create a shortcut pointing to c/c1.exe. How can this be done?

Right now, with the script I wrote, I can only manually modify each directory name and executable filename to create the self-extracting file!
How can I modify my script to make it work in batch?

Here is my current script aa.bat:
"C:\Program Files\WinRAR\rar.exe" a -sfx -iiconcos.ico a.exe -ap d:\game\a -zren.txt
pause
Below is the content of ren.txt:
Shortcut=s, "a/a1.exe", "Test", "Test", "Test1"
Shortcut=p, "a/a1.exe", "Test", "Test", "Test1"


Also, is it possible to integrate the comment file zren.txt into the aa.bat batch script above?



Hope all the experts can help!

[ Last edited by luoluo4413 on 2010-10-9 at 10:13 ]

C:\Documents and Settings\ZW>rar /?

RAR 3.61 Copyright (C) 1993-2006 Alexander Roshal 14 Sep 2006
Shareware version Enter RAR -? for help

Usage: rar <command> -<switch 1> -<switch N> <archive> <files...>
<@listfiles...> <extract path\>

<Commands>
a Add files to archive
c Add archive comment
cf Add file comments
ch Change archive parameters
cw Write archive comment to file
d Delete files from archive
e Extract files to current directory
f Freshen files in archive
i[param]=<str> Find string in archives
k Lock archive
l[t,b] List archive contents[technical, bare]
m[f] Move to archive[files only]
p Print file to stdout
r Repair archive
rc Reconstruct missing volumes
rn Rename archived files
rr[N] Add data recovery record
rv[N] Create recovery volumes
s[name|-] Convert archive to or from SFX
t Test archive files
u Update files in archive
v[t,b] Verbosely list archive contents[technical, bare]
x Extract files with full path

<Switches>
- Stop switches scanning
ac Clear archive attribute after compression or extraction
ad Append archive name to destination path
ag[format] Generate archive name using the current date
ao Add files with archive attribute set
ap<format> Set path inside archive
as Synchronize archive contents
av Add authenticity verification(requires registered version)
av- Disable authenticity verification
c- Disable comments show
cfg- Disable read config
cl Convert names to lower case
cu Convert names to upper case
df Delete files after archiving
dh Open shared files
ds Disable sort for solid archives
e[+]<attr> Set file exclude and include attributes
ed Do not add empty directories
en Do not add "end of archive" block
ep Exclude paths from names
ep1 Exclude base directory from names
ep2 Expand to full paths
ep3 Expand paths to full including the drive letter
f Freshen files
fcu[file] Read archive comment from Unicode file
hp[password] Encrypt both file data and headers
id[c,d,p,q] Disable messages
ieml[attr] Send archive by E-mail
ierr Send all messages to stderr
ilog[name] Log errors to file(requires registered version)
inul Disable all messages
ioff Turn PC power off after completing an operation
isnd Enable sound
k Lock archive
kb Keep broken extracted files
m<0..5> Set compression level(0-store...3-default...5-maximum)
mc<params> Set advanced compression parameters
md<size> Dictionary size in KB(64,128,256,512,1024,2048,4096 or A-G)
ms[ext;ext] Specify file types to store
mt<threads> Set the number of threads
n<file> Additionally filter included files
n@ Read additional filter masks from stdin
n@<list> Read additional filter masks from list file
o+ Overwrite existing files
o- Do not overwrite existing files
oc Set NTFS compressed attribute
or Rename files automatically
os Save NTFS streams
ow Save or restore file owner and group
p[password] Set password
p- Do not query password
r Recurse subdirectories
r0 Recurse subdirectories for wildcard names only
ri<P>[:<S>] Set priority(0-default,1-minimum..15-maximum) and sleep time in ms
rr[N] Add data recovery record
rv[N] Create recovery volumes
s[<N>,v[-],e] Create solid archive
s- Disable solid archiving
sfx[name] Create SFX archive
st[name] Read data from stdin
sl<size> Process files smaller than the specified size
sm<size> Process files larger than the specified size
t Test files after archiving
ta<date> Process files modified after <date> in YYYYMMDDHHMMSS format
tb<date> Process files modified before <date> in YYYYMMDDHHMMSS format
tk Keep original archive time
tl Set archive time to latest file time
tn<time> Process files newer than <time>
to<time> Process files older than <time>
ts<m,c,a>[N] Save or restore file time(modification, creation, access)
u Update files
v Auto-detect volume size or list all volumes
v<size>[k,b] Create volumes with size=<size>*1000 [*1024, *1]
vd Erase disk contents before creating volume
ver[n] File version control
vn Use old style volume naming scheme
vp Pause before each volume
w<path> Assign work directory
x<file> Exclude specified file
x@ Read file names to exclude from stdin
x@<list> Exclude files listed in specified list file
y Assume Yes on all queries
z[file] Read archive comment from file

I know all the RAR command switches. I'm just not very familiar with DOS batch scripts, so I don't know how to write it.

Is anyone still here? Why hasn't anyone given a reply?

Use it together with the FOR command.

Write the code as follows; it has been tested and works.
@echo off set path=C:\Program Files\WinRAR;%path% set p=D:\Game cd /d "%p%" for /f "delims=*" %%a in ('dir /ad /b') do ( echo Shortcut=s, "%%a/%%a1.exe", "Test", "Test", "Test1">temp.txt echo Shortcut=p, "%%a/%%a1.exe", "Test", "Test", "Test1">>temp.txt rar a -sfx -iiconcos.ico %%a.exe "%%a" -ztemp.txt ) del temp.txt pause

Replying to the brother in post #6: the exe filename under the directory is not fixed. It is the file with the .exe extension found by searching inside a certain directory.
It may be that the executable under folder a is not a1.exe, it could be xxx.exe. How can I get it?

Well, you didn't explain it that clearly at first...
Also, is there only one exe file under folder a?

[ Last edited by bozhou on 2010-10-8 at 19:39 ]

Oh, sorry, my mistake! There is only one exe file under folder a. Cases with multiple exe files are not being considered.

As follows:
@echo off title=By Bozhou@2010-10-8 color 0a set path=C:\Program Files\WinRAR;%path% set p=D:\Game cd /d "%p%" for /f "delims=*" %%a in ('dir /ad /b') do ( cd "%%a" for /f "delims=*" %%b in ('dir /b *.exe') do ( copy /y ..\..\ren.txt ..\temp.txt echo.>>..\temp.txt echo Shortcut=s, "%%a/%%b", "test", "test", "test1">>..\temp.txt echo Shortcut=p, "%%a/%%b", "test", "test", "test1">>..\temp.txt echo Shortcut=d, "%%a/%%b", "test", "test", "test1">>..\temp.txt cd.. ) rar a -sfx -iiconcos.ico %%a.exe "%%a" -ztemp.txt ) del temp.txt pause

Thanks bozhou, it's solved!