#256 Empty archive is created when 0 files / folders are found

[Dennis Jakobsen]

Hi,

There have been a lot of discussions about emptry directories and whether to include them or not, and how to with -r and "." etc.

But i'd like to not create an archive at all if there are no files in the folder i want to compress.

I'm using a simple 7z a -r -sdel dest-arc.7z somefolder*

Any reason why i'd want an empty archive?

If the archive exists i'd also want to not touch it. No timestamp modification.

Hope this makes sense.

Dennis