Advanced batch archive creation options

[Olivier VM]

Would be nice and usefull to be able to have more options when doing "batch archive creation", for instance:

- use wildcard (*,$,etc...) for file selection/non-selection
e.g.: select *.log
select all except *.zip
- automatically delete source file after compression
- select file older/younger than x days
- select x older/newest files
- delete file older than...
- going recursively into sub-directories... or not

All this would allow to easily maintain, compress, for instance, a log directory which do not compress results.

[TBGBe]

Coomand line version (PACL) can do all that (although may need DOS batch files to do the deletions).

[Olivier VM]

Originally Posted by TBGBe

Coomand line version (PACL) can do all that

My request/wish was of course a request for the GUI...

BTW, unfortunately, command line suffers from the same big limitation than the GUI: "-r" works only if we use *.* as file selection. It is not possible to use wildcards (for instance "*.log") and "-r"

I'm currently doing all this via script and command line, but aggregate all this in PA would be nice and easier.