Pass a Directory Query to <cfzip>?

I'm cross-posting this from Stackoverflow because CF questions don't seem to be answered quite as often over there. I can't create a direct link to it because this is a brand new account, but I'd be happy to PM the URL to anyone who wants to see the question on SO. The following is a direct copy-paste from the question:

I need to zip files from a directory, but not all the files in the directory. I determine the files that need to be zipped by running a query on the directory listing.

Currently, I'm looping over the query results to add each file to the archive individually, but this can take a while in a large directory.

Is there any way to do this outside of a loop? I couldn't find anything in the CF docs that would indicate that you can pass some sort of list to cfzip.

Yes, you can use a directory as the source and specify a filter.

Sorry, I should have been more specific in my question. I need all files in the folder that have a last modified date greater than a date that I am passing as a parameter. Is that passable as a filter? It seemed like filters were for the purpose of zipping files with a specific naming convention or files of the same type.

You can specify a list of filter values, but if the list is very large that probably won't work. It might be worth seeing if it is faster to loop over the files and copy or temporarily move them to a temp folder, and then just zip the temp folder. Finally, move them back to their original location (if you didn't copy them).

Thanks, I did find it much faster to copy the files to a temp directory rather than calling cfzip 100+ times in a loop.

Appreciate it!

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