How to exclude root directory

[jeffreym2-vfi]

I'm using compressDirectory to compress the files in a directory. However, I'd like to exclude the root directory from the archive.
For example, if the directory structure is:
Root
Root\File 1
Root\File 2
Root\Dir1
Root\Dir1\File 3

I'd like the archive to contain:
File 1
File 2
Dir1
Dir1\File 3

Instead, I'm getting:
Root
Root\File 1
Root\File 2
Root\Dir1
Root\Dir1\File 3

How would I go about getting the behavior that I want?

[rikyoz]

Hi!

To achieve the behavior you want, you might use the BitCompressor::compressFiles method which takes the folder path as its first argument.

try {
    Bit7zLibrary lib{};
    BitCompressor compressor{ lib, BitFormat::SevenZip };
    compressor.compressFiles( L"path/to/Root", L"out.7z", true, L"*" );
} catch ( const BitException& ex ) {
    //std::cerr << ex.what() << std::endl;
}

Please note that, by default, it uses L"*.*" as a filter for the files to be included in the output archive. Hence, you might want to use L"*" instead so that it will also consider files without extensions.