bulk delete certain types of files in rar/zip archive

You are correct about command prompt... we will go through it one step at a time though.

Just tested againt a .zip file and it worked so working on the folder G:\zip_rar_copy\

1. Open a command prompt
(Click Start >> Type CMD >> Click CMD.exe from the search result)

You now have the Command Prompt open...

2. Lets change the directory/folder you are in - Type or copy/paste the following:
Type G: then press enter
Type cd G:\zip_rar_copy\ then press enter

Example (although my letter is E:, your is G: )



You should now be in G:\zip_rar_copy\ (see my screenshot above for example)
Before moving on... please confirm you get to this stage ok

Cheers,
Jamie

You can put copies of all the .rar/.zip files in one folder, Select all>extract here. Use the folder sorting option and sort in to Types. Now you can find all the .txt or html files easily.
Problem with this is you'd have to re-compress all the remains back into separate files.

Britton30 said:

You can put copies of all the .rar/.zip files in one folder, Select all>extract here. Use the folder sorting option and sort in to Types. Now you can find all the .txt or html files easily.
Problem with this is you'd have to re-compress all the remains back into separate files.

The script that i posted earlier will remove the specified file(s) from the zip/rar without the need to extract / zip up again

We are about to get to that stage, just waiting for confirmation that the first steps mentioned above are completed.

WOW... that's a lot of zipped up stuff ha ha.

Ok... starting where we left off, you are now within G:\zip_rar_copy\
This is where the fun / potentially dangerous bit begins... hence the "copy" of data.
Make sure you have WinRar installed - WinRAR archiver, a powerful tool to process RAR and ZIP files
(Download link at the bottom of the page 'English 64-bit')


Type or copy/paste the following into the command prompt:

This is currently set to remove .txt files, change the .txt bit at the end of the line to the filetype you want to remove.

Code:

for %I in (*.rar) do "C:\Program Files\WinRAR\WinRAR.exe" d -ibck "%I" *.txt

Once it finishes lets do the same but for .zip files...
Notice the difference at the beginning, i have changed (*.rar) to (*.zip)

This is currently set to remove .txt files, change the .txt bit at the end of the line to the filetype you want to remove.

Code:

for %I in (*.zip) do "C:\Program Files\WinRAR\WinRAR.exe" d -ibck "%I" *.txt

Now, when you look in the rar/zip files you shouldn't see anything of the file types you have just removed

Let me know how it goes.

Regards,
Jamie