Commandline to zip a file using WinRar

Question

I looked for the answers in the list and did not find any matching.

What is the commandline to zip a file using Winrar, and then move it to a particular folder?

Answer 1

Though I found no documentation for it, I did manage to use winrar from the command line. I used the following syntax:

winrar a archiveName file1 file2 ....

to create an archive, and

winrar x archiveName

to extract the files from it in the current directory.

Answer 2

WinRAR cannot be used from the command line, use RAR instead.

rar.exe (unlike WinRAR) cannot be used to create a zip archive.

for all possible RAR commands and switches refer to help (rar /?)

but here's how to use zip and unzip on the windows command line.

Answer 3

Per sqlsavvy's post on StackOverflow, it is possible to do using winrar.exe from the command line.

Make certain you are using WinRAR.exe and not Rar.exe.

If you are using the command line to do this make sure you type:

winrar a -afzip -df c:\test.zip c:\test.csv

not:

a -afzip -df c:\test.zip c:\test.csv

I confirm this works, however it pops up a gui progress bar during compress, instead of providing command line output.