Command Line Parameters
Bandizip (Bandizip.exe) and its console application (bz.exe) support the following command line parameters:
# Bandizip.exe <command> [<switches>...] <archive> [<files>...] [<path_to_extract>]
# Bandizip.exe <bcommand> [<switches>...] [<files>...]
<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 available on bz.exe) |
| /cmdfile | Read command lines from specified file |
<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, 1: fast, 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:"stub path" |
Create SFX archive and set full paths of SFX STUB (Bandizip c -sfx:"C:\Program Files\Bandizip\bdzsfx.x86.sfx" c:\out.exe c:\src.txt) |
| -zopfli | Use Zopfil as default encoder (slow) |
| -p:{password} | Set password for archive |
| -o:{dir} | Specify destination folder Only with x command and batch commands (bc, bx, bt) |
| -storeroot:<yes|no> |
-storeroot:yes Store root directory as top-level folder of archive
-storeroot:no Store no top-level folder of archive |
| -y | Assume Yes on all queries 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 (-cmtfile:mycomment.txt, -cmtfile:"c:\test\my comment.txt") |
| -t:NN | Specify number of CPU threads used when compressing (-t:10, -t:1, -t:0) |
| -cp:NN |
Specify code page used when opening or extracting files (Bandizip x -cp:932 japanese.zip) Examples of available code page - Chinese Simplified: 936 - Chinese Traditional: 950 - Japanese: 932 - Korean: 949 - UTF-8: 65001 |
| -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. |
| -date |
Insert current system time in path. Refer to the syntax of strftime.  ⁑ Bandizip.exe c -date f:\backup\%Y\%m\Backup%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S.zip c:\source\ |
<switches> (Only available on Bandizip)
| 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. |
<switches> (Only available on bz.exe)
| -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. |
Examples
Open archive
Bandizip.exe sample.zip
Create new archive (Overwrite existing one with the same name)
Bandizip.exe c c:\sample.zip c:\src\
Bandizip.exe c c:\sample.zip c:\src1\ c:\src2\
Add files to archive
Bandizip.exe a c:\sample.zip c:\src\sample.txt
Bandizip.exe a c:\sample.zip c:\src\sample1.txt c:\src\sample2.txt
Bandizip.exe a c:\sample.zip c:\src\*.txt c:\src\*.jpg
Delete files from archive
Bandizip.exe d c:\sample.zip sample.txt
Bandizip.exe d c:\sample.zip *.txt
Bandizip.exe d c:\sample.zip *.tmp *.bak
Extract files to destination folder
Bandizip.exe x -o:c:\dest\ c:\sample.zip
Add files to archive, set password as Passw0rd, overwrite existing files without prompt, and close the dialog box
Bandizip.exe a -y -p:Passw0rd test.zip c:\src d:\src
Extract files from multiple archives to one folder
Bandizip.exe bx -o:c:\dst a.zip b.zip c.zip
Extract files from multiple archives to a destination folder using Extract Here (Smart) feature
Bandizip.exe bx -o:c:\dst -target:auto a.zip b.zip c.zip
Compress multiple folders (a, b, c) with the name of each folder (a.zip b.zip c.zip)
Bandizip.exe bc a b c
Specify top-level folder of archive
Bandizip c -root:top test.zip abc.txt
(bz.exe) Create new archive
bz c test.zip test
Rename files in archive
Rename abc.txt to xyz.txt
Bandizip rn test.zip abc.txt xyz.txt
Rename in subfolder abc.txt to xyz.txt
Bandizip rn test.zip sub/abc.txt sub/xyz.txt
Rename AAA.txt to XXX.txt and BBB.txt to YYY.txt
Bandizip rn test.zip AAA.txt XXX.txt BBB.txt YYY.txt
Extract files using wildcards
Use wildcards in filenames to extract files or to test archives
Bandizip x *.zip
Bandizip t ABC??.zip
Compress multiple folders individually
Compress folders with the name of each, and create the archives in the destination folder
Bandizip bc -aoa -o:d:\backup c:\src\folder1 c:\src\folder2 c:\src\folder3
c:\src\folder1 → d:\backup\folder1.zip
c:\src\folder2 → d:\backup\folder2.zip
c:\src\folder3 → d:\backup\folder3.zip
Read and execute command lines from specified file
Save long command lines as TXT file and call it
Bandizip /cmdfile cmdfile.txt
Bandizip /cmdfile c:/test/cmdfile.txt
Spaces in pahts
Use quotation marks when specifying long filenames or paths with spaces
Bandizip t "c:\folder name\file name.zip"
Bandizip x -o:"c:\out folder\" "c:\folder name\file name.zip"
Extract specified files only
Use filenames or wildcards to specify files you want from archive
Bandizip x sample.zip test.txt
Bandizip x sample.zip a.txt b.txt
Bandizip x sample.zip *.jpg
Bandizip x -r sample.zip *.jpg