#2111 defects: 7z.exe a,e,x commands only do full dir trees, not specified subtrees and files

[Jim Michaels]

7z.exe a,e,x commands only do full dir trees, not specified subtrees and files.
has not worked in a long time. -ai doesn't work either, still throws error.

this has gone largely ignored for more than a year and focus has gone on to improving compression rather than fixing the commandline and GUI user interface, which does not work correctly. we do need to do partial backups and partial restores with this thing called 7z.exe and the gui version.

start by fixing the commandline bugs. commandline is great for starting parallel jobs. and I need this to package my software, in parallel (and I don't mean -mmt).

for example, watch what happens when you do this:

7z a somefile.7z dir1\somefile somefile2 dir1\somefile3 dir1\dir2, dir1\dir
3\dir4\

actual: a,e,x commands do entire tree of files, not what I asked for.
expected: a,e,x commands should do only the directories I asked for after the archive name.

[Jim Michaels]

.
dir1/dir2
dir1/dir3/dir4

is all the dirs you need

[Jim Michaels]

why does a 700-byte .cmd file take 1 minute on a fast machine to compress?

[Igor Pavlov]

Not a BUG.
Think about such cases:
You select "C:\Program Files" item in explorer and ask to compress it. What do you expect?
And similar command from command line:

7z a c:\1.7z "C:\Program Files"

What do you expect?

[Jim Michaels]

I am talking about the seemingly inappropriate length of time. is there a Sleep() in the program?

[Igor Pavlov]

Show your command.

[Jim Michaels]

ummm...

7z a somefile.7z somefile1 somefile2 dir1 dir2
7z x somefile.7z somefile1 somefile2 dir1 dir2
7z e somefile.7z somefile1 somefile2 dir1\somefile dir2\ dir3