7-Zip Batch Script

[Jay]

I have installed 7-zip w/64-bit version for Windows 2012 R2. I currently writing a batch job to do do some zipping, basically do some clean up space once a week. I got it done, which I have listed the run commands below. I am not a developer or claim to be one, so the codes are not that sophisticated.. So please don't laugh at my coding . Please review my syntax and let me know if I can do a better and cleaner batch script than the one that I presented here.

Thank you in advance.

Jay

@echo off

REM set hr=%TIME:~0,2%
REM if %hr% lss 10 SET hr=0%hr:~1,1%
set TODAY=%DATE:~4,2%-%DATE:~7,2%-%DATE:~10,4%

ECHO.
ECHO * Zipping all the files in C:\Temp\Archived and moving it to C:\Temp\Zipped
CD C:\Temp\Archived
ECHO.
7z.exe a -tzip "C:\Temp\Zipped\MyZip_%TODAY%.zip" "C:\Temp\Archived*." -mx5
CD ..
ECHO.
ECHO Delete the files in original folder
Del C:\Temp\Archived*. /s /q
RD /S /Q C:\Temp\Archived\

MD C:\Temp\Archived

@pause

[Shell]

.zip extension selects -tzip by default, -mx5 is also the default. You may, however, include those switches to make the code more evident. The del /s /q command is almost equivalent to rd-md pair, so you may omit last 2 lines before pause:

cd C:\Temp
7z a ..\Zipped\MyZip_%TODAY%.zip Archived
if errorlevel 1 (
  echo Zipping failed with code %ERRORLEVEL%
  exit /b
)
echo Deleting the files in original folder
del /s /q Archived

Also, if you have 7-Zip 9.30 or newer, you may use the -sdel switch instead of del (however, you may also need md).