a small plea for the command line compression developers

[SvenBent]

it would be damn nice of the program like rzm and ccm(x) could take another option

-d Delete original files


i know its easy to do this by batch , but when handling multithreaded batch doing several layers of compression/filtering files, this simple features requires alot of work to do.

[encode]

Just imagine, some compressor has a bug and some beautiful day it will compress some file incorrectly, and just after that it will remove the original data... Demolition....

[SvenBent]

i see the issue,

but

a:
It clearly states that these a experimental only.

b:
Actually i would only need this for decompression.


its the decompression that i'm using a multithreadet batch for


the reason i need to delete the files is so that my batch file can see the file is gone and the decompression is finished, and then it can start the next level of decompression/filtering on all the files.


this is my extract.bat file

@ECHO OFF
set wait=ping 127.255.255.255 -w 255



REM ----- HANDLING .RZM FILES -----
ECHO rzm.exe d %%1 %%1.tmp > DcmpTMP.bat
ECHO del %%1 >> DcmpTMP.bat
ECHO exit >> DcmpTMP.bat
for %%f in (*.rzm) do start DcmpTMP.bat "%%f"

:checkrzm
%wait% > nul
if exist *.rzm goto checkrzm
ren *.tmp *.
ren *.rzm *.
del rzm.exe



REM ----- HANDLING .REP FILES -----
ECHO rep.exe -d %%1 %%1.tmp > DcmpTMP.bat
ECHO del %%1 >> DcmpTMP.bat
ECHO exit >> DcmpTMP.bat
for %%f in (*.rep) do start DcmpTMP.bat "%%f"

:checkrep
%wait% > nul
if exist *.rep goto checkrep
ren *.tmp *.
ren *.rep *.
del rep.exe



REM ----- HANDLING DELTA FILES -----
ECHO delta.exe -d %%1 %%1.tmp > DcmpTMP.bat
ECHO del %%1 >> DcmpTMP.bat
ECHO exit >> DcmpTMP.bat
for %%f in (*.del) do start DcmpTMP.bat "%%f"

:checkdelta
%wait% > nul
if exist *.del goto checkdelta
ren *.tmp *.
ren *.del *.
del delta.exe



REM ----- HANDLING .PCF FILES -----
for %%f in (*.pcf) do Precomp.exe -r %%f

del precomp.exe
del zlib1.dll
del packJPG.dll



REM ----- HANDLING ECM FILES -----
ECHO unecm.exe %%1 > DcmpTMP.bat
ECHO del %%1 >> DcmpTMP.bat
ECHO exit >> DcmpTMP.bat
for %%f in (*.ecm) do start DcmpTMP.bat "%%f"

:checkecm
%wait% > nul
if exist *.ecm goto checkecm
del unecm.exe





key.txt

del DcmpTMP.bat
del %0

if i didn't need to delete the file by another command line i would not need to make all these sub batches rutines