After 7zip extracts a file,
How can I make it run a program? The program is in the extracted file.
Is there a way that I can add code to do this?
You can do this with the 7z SFX modules, which are part of the 7z Extras package.
This allows you to create installers with 7z.
See the 7z download site here for more information.
The download contains a readme file, as well as an example config file.
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I have filename.zip file and if double click the file it has to extract the file in the desired location("c:\user\username"). I have tried using the batch file but didnt give me the required result.
#echo on
#set nested=%nested%Z
set _dest=c:\user\username
if NOT EXIST %_dest% md %_dest%
So if i double click on zip file it has to execute batch file to place file in the destination folder path.How can i do that?
If I understand correctly, you simply want to extract a .zip archive to a previously defined directory c:\user\username, when the user clicks that .zip archive.
No, this is not possible.
A .zip file has no default extraction destination. Nor has is a way to execute scripts upon extraction. It is just a container for compressed data. When you click it, your OS runs a program configured to handle .zip files, allowing you to view the contents, extract the contents, etc - but what and how exactly, is up to the user that clicked the file.
What you effectively want to have is an installer. Here are some pointers for options to do that:
Microsoft IExpress
Nullsoft Scriptable Install System (NSIS)
Quasi-installer using 7-zip self-extracting archive
Compressing a folder into a .zip file is a common way to treat a folder as file, for example, uploading a folder. Is there a faster way to "pack" the contents of a folder into a file (without taking the time to compress)?
You should use a tarfile. In unix or mac, its the tar command. On Windows there is a tool called 7-zip.
You can see more details here.
I have zip file containing my installation files. I'm extracting this zip and copying these files into installation directory with the script shown below:
ZipDLL::extractall "$OUTDIR\demo.zip" "C:\myapp\demo\"
if I remove zip file from $OUTDIR than installer is not able to find zip file as expected. What I want to do is embedding this zip or its extracted folders into exe itself. I added
File -r "$OUTDIR/demo"
but this script didn't worked as well.
When you use the ZipDll plugin, you are referring to the file you want to process (demo.zip) by using its place at run time: along the installer.exe.
When you use the File statement to embed some files into the produced installer, you need to refer to the files by using their place at compile time.
Replace the $OUTDIR in the File statement by the path relative to the .nsi script.
BTW, you should take the habit to check at the compilation log, NSIS probably tells you about that kind of problem when paths are incorrect at compile-time.
I'm trying to get a Perl script (.pl) out of an executable (.exe) file. The .exe file was originally coded in Perl but the .pl file was not kept. Is there a quick way to do this? I'm using Strawberry Perl for windows.
Thanks
Rename .exe to .zip and check if files can be extracted
From the PAR FAQ:
How do I extract my script out of packed executable?
In other words, "I did a `pp foo.pl' and I lost foo.pl, how do I get it back?".
The answer is to just use unzip/winzip/winrar/whatever to decompress the executable, treating it like a normal Zip file. You may need to rename the executable into a .zip extension first.
pp relies on PAR to create the executable. PAR relies on Archive::Zip, so at some level the file contains zipped copies of the perl scripts used to create the executable.
Typically, these programs attach a loader to the front of a zip archive which unzips the files to a temporary directory and invokes the script indicated as the program's entry point.
I'd try two things:
root around in all the typical Temp directories (\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Temp for instance) for a directory containing your script and it's prerequsites.
try to uncompress the exe as a zip, possibly removing the loader from the start of he program first, using a byte editor.
I have a pre-defined ftp link with a zip file on the other end that I want to save to a directory on my cloud server (running Windows Server 2008). Once the zip file has been saved to a specified directory, lets say "c:\MyZipFiles\ZipFile-1.zip" for example, I want to unzip the file so that all files contained within the zip file are accessible within the same directory. I'm currently doing this manually and I want to automate this process by creating a .bat or .cmd file that will perform these steps for me.
Once the zip file is unzipped, I have a task in the Task Scheduler of Windows Server Manager ready to use the unzipped files for other things.
The pre-defined link looks something like this:
ftp://idx.realtor.com/idx_download/files.zip
I would greatly appreciate anyone who can help me with this...
Batch file
ftp -s:ftp_cmds.txt host-name-goes-here
unzip local-file.zip
exit
ftp_cmds.txt
username-goes-here
password-goes-here
cd remote-directory-goes-here
get files.zip local-file-name-goes-here.zip
quit
This the batch file uses "unzip" to unzip the archive you can find it here: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/unzip.htm
Either put the binaries in the same directory or put them somewhere else and set your windows PATH
I used my own ftp to test most of this. Your ftp was offline for me, so it might take some tweaking but this should put you in the right direction.