Question

Visual Studio Templates has folder structure like this:

/ProjectTemplatesCache
    /CSharp
        /Windows
            /1033
                /ClassLibrary.zip -- the lowest subfolder
                    /Properties
                /WindowsService.zip -- the lowest subfolder
            /1042
    /VisualBasic

I want to start at the root folder, dig down to the lowest subfolders and zip each of them to a separate archive.

Using Windows Batch or C#.

How to zip – doesn’t matter. Just be able to select each separately / execute a command against each.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

C# 4.0:

var leafsDirs = Directory
    .EnumerateDirectories(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory(), "*", SearchOption.AllDirectories)
    .Where(sub => !Directory.EnumerateDirectories(sub).Any());

leafsDirs.ToList().ForEach(Console.WriteLine);

Look at ICSharpZip to do the actual zipping

Update:

After @khachik’s suggestion my criteria should be di.Name.EndsWith(“.zip”, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)

Ok, just mixing the condition with the Where()

as far as template folder can contains some subfolders, e.g. ASP.NET MVC web app

you can always provide a Func<DirectoryInfo, bool> to decide which directories are toBeZipped