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Command Line Parameters

Bandizip (Bandizip.exe) and its console application (bz.exe) support the following command line parameters:

# Bandizip.exe <archive>
# Bandizip.exe <command> [<switches>...] <archive> [<files>...] [<path_to_extract>]
# Bandizip.exe <bcommand> [<switches>...] [<files>...]

# bz.exe <command> [<switches>...] <archive> [<files>...] [<path_to_extract>]

<archive>

Perform the default task specified in Settings. (Usually open an archive.)

<command>

a	Add files to archive
x	Extract files with full paths
t	Test integrity of archive
d	Delete files from archive
c	Create new archive (Overwrite existing one with the same name)
cd	Display “New Archive” dialog box
rn	Rename files in archive
l	List files from archive (Only with bz)

<bcommand> Batch Commands

bc	Compress multiple files/folders with the name of each. If existing archives have the same name, (archive-name) (2), (archive-name) (3) … are created. If a destination folder is not specified, the archives are created in the folder where each of the original files exists.
bx	Extract files from multiple archives to a destination folder. If a destination folder is not specified, the files are extracted to the folder where each of the archives exists.
bt	Test integrity of each archive.

<switches>

-	Stop switch parsing
-l:<0...9>	Set compression level (0: store, 5: default, 9: maximum)
-r-	Disable recurse subdirectories (default)
-r	Enable recurse subdirectories
-aoa	Overwrite existing files without prompt
-aos	Skip and not overwrite existing files
-aou	Auto-rename extracted files For example, name.txt → name (2).txt
-sfx:[{name}]	Create SFX archive and set full paths of SFX STUB
-zopfli	Use Zopfil as default encoder (slow)
-p:{password}	Set password for archive
-o:{dir}	Specify destination folder
-storeroot:yes	Store root directory as top-level folder of archive
-y	Assume Yes on all queries
-y2	Close (de)compression windows on task completion if no error occurs
-ex:{list}	Specify list of files to exclude when compressing -ex:hello.txt -ex:".bak" -ex:".bak;.tmp" -ex:\.git
-root:{dir}	Specify root directory in archive when compressing -root:top_folder
-fmt:{fmt}	Specify archive format (zip, zipx, exe, tar, tgz, lzh, iso, 7z, gz, xz)
-v:{size}	Specify volume size (-v:1000000 -v:1440k -v:100MB ...)
-cmt:{comment}	Set ZIP file comment (-cmt:Hello, -cmt:"Hello World!")
-cmtfile:{filepath}	Specify path of txt file used as ZIP file comment (-cmt:mycomment.txt, -cmt:"c:\test\my comment.txt")

<switches> (Only with Bandizip)

-email	Compress and email
-target:dlg	Display a dialog box asking to specify a destination folder, and extract files to an archive-name folder in the destination folder. If any folder is specified with -o, it is the default folder of the dialog box.
-target:auto	Extract files to a destination folder using Extract Here (Smart) feature. If a destination folder is not specified, the files are extracted to the folder where each of the archives exists.
-target:name	Extract files to an archive-name folder in a destination folder. If a destination folder is not specified, the files are extracted to the archive-name folder in the folder where each of the archives exists.

<switches> (Only with bz)

-list:v	When using command l, show the detailed information of the files.
-list:s	When using command l, show only the names of the files.
-consolemode:ansi	Save output txt file in ANSI.
-consolemode:utf8	Save output txt file in UTF-8.