How to create a batch script that can be used in any folder, to zip its contents?

I'd like to create a batch file (extension ".bat") which will:
- when executed from a certain folder, will archive all the files in that certain folder

I'm currently using Windows XP, with both WinRar & 7zip installed. So a batch script using either of those archiving softwares would be fine.

When I searched online, the available tutorials only covered the archiving of specific folders. Whereas I'd like to create a single "portable" batch file...wherever I'd place it, it would zip the files in that specific folder.

Thanks for any help!

 

Hi paulescobar, try this:

 

Thanks for your suggestion majoMo!

Going off of the suggestions, I tweaked it a little bit to include zip format, compression, & adopting name of current folder....this is what it ends up being:

Code:

set zdir="C:\Program Files\7-Zip"
for %%A in ("%~dp0.") do echo %%~nA>tmp.txt
set /p fname=< tmp.txt
del tmp.txt
%zdir%\7z.exe a -tzip -mx=9 "%fname%".zip *.* -r -x!"portable zip.bat"

Where "portable zip.bat" is the name of our bat file...modified according to your bat's name.

And, yeah, this ends up being totally portable & able to zip contents of any folder its executed from.