VBScript

Create Zip Excluding Files Matching Patterns

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How to create a .zip archive excluding (skipping) files that match a set of wildcarded patterns. VBScript

Dim fso, outFile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'Create a Unicode (utf-16) output text file.
Set outFile = fso.CreateTextFile("output.txt", True, True)

success = 0

' This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
' See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

set zip = CreateObject("Chilkat.Zip")

success = zip.NewZip("test.zip")
If (success <> 1) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(zip.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

' Create a string array object with our set of filename patterns
' to be excluded:
set sa = CreateObject("Chilkat.StringArray")
success = sa.Append("*.bak")
success = sa.Append("*.tmp")

' Tell the zip object to use these exclusions:
zip.SetExclusions sa

' Append a directory tree.  The AppendFiles does
' not read the file contents or append them to the zip
' object in memory.  It simply appends references
' to the files so that when WriteZip (or WriteZipAndClose,
' or WriteExe, etc.) is called, the files are compressed
' and encrypted.
recurse = 1
success = zip.AppendFiles("/temp/a/*",recurse)

success = zip.WriteZipAndClose()
If (success <> 1) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(zip.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

outFile.WriteLine("Zip Created!")

outFile.Close