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11<H1>a (Add) command</H1>
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13<P>Adds files to archive.</P>
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15<H4>Examples</H4>
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17<PRE class="example">
187z a archive1.zip subdir\
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21<P>adds all files and subfolders from folder <SPAN class="filename">subdir</SPAN> to archive
22  <SPAN class="filename">archive1.zip</SPAN>.
23  The filenames in archive will contain <SPAN class="filename">subdir\</SPAN> prefix.</P>
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267z a archive2.zip .\subdir\*
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29<P>adds all files and subfolders from folder <SPAN class="filename">subdir</SPAN> to archive
30  <SPAN class="filename">archive2.zip</SPAN>.
31  The filenames in archive will not contain <SPAN class="filename">subdir\</SPAN> prefix.</P>
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34<PRE class="example">
35cd /D c:\dir1\
367z a c:\archive3.zip dir2\dir3\
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39The filenames in archive <SPAN class="filename">c:\archive3.zip</SPAN>
40will contain <SPAN class="filename">dir2\dir3\</SPAN> prefix,
41but they will not contain <SPAN class="filename">c:\dir1\</SPAN> prefix.
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43<PRE class="example">
447z a Files.7z *.txt -r
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47<P>adds all *.txt files from current folder and its subfolders to archive
48    <SPAN class="filename">Files.7z</SPAN>.</P>
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51<H4>Notes</H4>
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53<P>7-Zip doesn't uses the system wildcard parser. 7-Zip doesn't
54follow the archaic rule by which *.* means any file. 7-Zip treats
55*.* as matching the name of any file that has an extension. To process
56all files, you must use a * wildcard.</P>
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59<H4>Switches that can be used with this command</H4>
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62  <A href="../switches/include.htm">-i (Include)</A><BR>
63  <A href="../switches/method.htm">-m (Method)</A><BR>
64  <A href="../switches/password.htm">-p (Set Password)</A><BR>
65  <A href="../switches/recurse.htm">-r (Recurse)</A><BR>
66  <A href="../switches/sfx.htm">-sfx (create SFX)</A><BR>
67  <A href="../switches/stdin.htm">-si (use StdIn)</A><BR>
68  <A href="../switches/stdout.htm">-so (use StdOut)</A><BR>
69  <A href="../switches/shared.htm">-ssw (Compress shared files)</A><BR>
70  <A href="../switches/type.htm">-t (Type of archive)</A><BR>
71  <A href="../switches/update.htm">-u (Update)</A><BR>
72  <A href="../switches/volume.htm">-v (Volumes)</A><BR>
73  <A href="../switches/working_dir.htm">-w (Working Dir)</A><BR>
74  <A href="../switches/exclude.htm">-x (Exclude)</A>
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77<H4>See also</H4>
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79<P>
80  <B>Commands:</B>
81    <A href="delete.htm">d (Delete)</A>,
82    <A href="update.htm">u (Update)</A><BR>
83  <B>Switches:</B>
84    <A href="../switches/update.htm">-u (Update)</A>
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