automatically getting current working directory name for creating tgz file custom command

i currently use this custom command :


which means a window popup on wisncp and i can manually enter the tar file name (renaming archive.tgz as the above custom command shows) and hit ok so file going to be compressed as .tar or .tgz file format.

i need to know how instead of "archive.tgz" how to get automatically "current working directory name".tgz for creating tgz file for the selected files in that current working directory ?

any help guys ? i am stucked

put at least a bump if you can . thanks for the help.

tar -cz -f "`basename \`pwd\``.tgz" !&

i used this command


its not working unfortunately. only create a tar file as 'basename \'pwd\''.tgz

please help me to sort this. im stucked

anyway i managed to get this work up to certain level. without popup. anyway here is the working code so far. hole this helps anyone


i need to know how to do the popup command below to convert as above


i just need to replace "archive .tgz" to "$(basename "$PWD").tgz" but its not working like that at the moment

any help ?

Anonymous wrote:

i used this command

tar -cz -f "'basename \'pwd\''.tgz" !&

its not working unfortunately. only create a tar file as 'basename \'pwd\''.tgz

There are backticks `, not single quotes '.
Though the $(basename "$PWD") is indeed equivalent.

Anonymous wrote:

i need to know how to do the popup command below to convert as above

tar -cz  -f "!?&Archive Name:?archive .tgz!" !&

i just need to replace "archive .tgz" to "$(basename "$PWD").tgz" but its not working like that at the moment

any help ?

That's not possible using such a simple custom command. You would have to implement much more complicated separate script that does the parsing and prompting and then opens its own session to call the tar.
See https://winscp.net/eng/docs/guide_custom_commands_automation