I wrote a script that wil copy a particular folder to a list of hosts, stored in a text file.
It works great from a short source path but fails to find the folder when located in a long path, which is how i need it to function.
Thsi what i tried, which should copy the folder to the list in the text.
Code below
set source=%~dp0%data
set source2=%~dp0%\target.txt
FOR /F "TOKENS=*" %%A IN (%source2%) DO XCOPY /d /y /f /i "%source%" "\%%~A\c$\users\test\test"
pause
Error: The system cannot find the file C:\Users\lenovo\OneDrive\Company\Red.
The above path is not the full path.
I understand there may well be more modern ways to achive this such as ropcopy or powershell and am open to ideas if this is not teh best method.
Thanks in advance for any help
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so I have a list of about 26,000 files that I need Copied/moved to a different directory on a server. The different files in the list all have different sub-directory locations and names in the main source folder and the paths are specified in the filelist document.
The source filepath is on a network drive so (V:\RandomFolder\RandomSubdirectory)
The destination filepath would be on the local machine so (C:\RandomDestination)
I looked into seeing of robocopy could pull from the file list and move that way but I couldn't seem to find a way to make that work. Anyone got any ideas? I'd really appreciate any help.
Okay I figured it out, if anyone runs into this conundrum just follow like what is below( and edit to your liking and save it as a .bat
`#ECHO ON
SET FileList=C:\listoffilestomove.txt
SET Source=\\TopLevelOfNetworkOrFolderSourceDirectory\
SET Destination=C:\yourdestination
FOR /F "USEBACKQ TOKENS=*" %%F IN ("%FileList%") DO XCOPY /F /Y "%Source%\%%~F" "%Destination%\"
GOTO :EOF`
I'm trying to use this script to assist technicians with renaming files that are found on an end users computer within their %appdata% folder. The script works up until this point, but I can't figure out how to take the output of the DIR search to use it as the current directory so I can modify the destination folder.
Basically, I need to make changes to this folder:
C:\users\bob\appdata\local\apps\2.0\'7'\'7'\time...exe_bfe88f94fc69adaa_0005.0011_none_b883acbb6e8d0075
The two 7's or wildcards are always different folder directory names, so that's why I can't use a static path to make changes to these folders. Anyways, here is the script so far, it works just fine in locating the folder I need, but I cannot seem to use the output to specify it as the target so I can make changes to it. Thank you for your help.
cd %appdata%
cd ..
cd local\apps\2.0
dir "time...exe_bfe88f94fc69adaa_0005.0011_none_39f58db4ac6311ec" /ad /s
I've tried using the pipeline argument (|) and the '&' and then using a rename command or a removedir, but it cannot find the file specified.
Thank you for your help!
Here's a batch-file which is a little more direct than just recursing the entire tree. It only steps over the two 'unknown' directory names, (%%~nxG\%%~nxH), and checks there for the named directory, (which you should edit as needed on line 3):
#Echo Off & SetLocal EnableExtensions
Set "DirName=time...exe_bfe88f94fc69adaa_0005.0011_none_39f58db4ac6311ec"
Set "BaseDir=%LocalAppData%\apps\2.0"
Set "AppPath="
For /D %%G In ("%BaseDir%\*")Do For /D %%H In ("%%G\*")Do For %%I In (
"%%H\%DirName%")Do If "%%~aI" GEq "d" Set "AppPath=%%~I"
If Not Defined AppPath Echo %DirName% Not Found & Pause & Exit /B 1
Echo %%AppPath%% = %AppPath% & Pause
Nothing else should be modified except for the last line which I added just to provide some output, (you/your technicians would use "%AppPath%" to reference the target directory from that point forward).
If you were looking for something in powershell, then perhaps this will push you in the right direction:
$DirName = "time...exe_bfe88f94fc69adaa_0005.0011_none_39f58db4ac6311ec"
$AppPath = (RvPa "$Env:LocalAppData\apps\2.0\*\*\$DirName").Path
$AppPath
Once again the last line is just to provide output and show you the variable you'll need to reference your target directory, and the first line will need editing as needed.
This code uses a FOR loop to find directory names that match. There is an ECHO inside the loop since I do not know if multiple directories could be found.
#ECHO OFF
CD "%APPDATA%\.."
FOR /F "delims=" %%A IN ('DIR /S /B /A:D "time...exe_bfe88f94fc69adaa_0005.0011_none_39f58db4ac6311ec"') DO (
ECHO Found directory "%%~A"
SET THEDIR=%%~A
)
DIR "%THEDIR%"
REN "%THEDIR%\file1.txt" "file2.txt"
I have a Results directory, which has many subdirectories each containing a HTML file with a specific naming format, _ExeReport.html.
I want to write a Windows script which merges each of those files into one file.
For now, I tried running two commands :
dir /S *_ExeReport.html
This is listing all the files (with some extra information), and:
copy /b *.html final.html
This is merging all the files in current directory into one file.
But, I am not able to write a script which can combine and do everything I need.
Can someone help me with this? I am newbie to scripting languages.
Thanks to #T3RR0R for sharing the link. My final command :
FOR /F "tokens=*" %G IN ('dir /b /s *_ExeReport.html') DO TYPE "%G" >> MergedOutput.html
I am trying to copy one script file (DBFF.cmd) to many computers. I have created a computerlist.txt to list the names of each computer. On each line I have just the list of names ex. (win-ali) will someone please tell me where I may be going wrong?
for /F %%a in (computerlist.txt) do xcopy "\\tc\Install\Firefox_Deploy\DBFF.cmd" "\\%%a\c$\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp"
Without knowing what issues/errors you're encountering, it's going to be difficult to troubleshoot.
That being said, your example should work within a batch file. It will not work straight from the command line.
If you need it to work from the command line, change %%a to %a:
for /F %a in (computerlist.txt) do xcopy "\\tc\Install\Firefox_Deploy\DBFF.cmd" "\\%a\c$\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp"
Here's an old Microsoft post about the percent signs being stripped from batch files: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/75634
I'm sending commands to a remote computer in order to have it copy a file.
I want the file to be copied, but not to overwrite the previous file with the same name (if it exists).
I also need the command to run without any prompts (xcopy likes to prompt whether the target name I've specified is file or directory, and it will also prompt about overwriting a file).
I have good results with xcopy /d.
It will copy NEWER files, and since we can assume that existing files have same time-stamp, you will copy only files that don't exist.
just in case anyone else finds this:
robocopy x:\sourcefolder Y:\destfolder /s /e /r:0 /z
much better than xcopy, even gives you a table at the end informing of any failed or skipped files. Doesn't prompt to not overwrite.
Well, there's a certain remedy! It has helped me with saving much of my effort and time on Win10 while writing a setup for our product demo.
Just try to use piping:
#ECHO N|COPY /-Y SourceFiles Destination
As an example I used this piece of code so that I would have a clean gentle quiet and safe copy!
#FOR /D %%F in ("FooPath") DO #(
#ECHO N|COPY /-Y ^"%%~npdxF\*.*^" ^"GooPath^" 3>NUL 2>NUL >NUL
)
where obviously FooPath is the source and GooPath is the destination.
Enjoy!
(main source: https://ss64.com/nt/copy.html)
Following command copy files and folder but not override file if already exist.
xcopy "*.*" "C:\test\" /s /y /d
No way to make it NOT overwrite as far as I know. but /Y will make it overwrite. and /I will get rid of the file/dict prompt. See xcopy /? for all options
You can also use the replace command. It has two modes: to add files that don't exist there or replace files that do exist. You want the previous mode:
replace <path1> <path2> /A
I had to copy AND rename files, so I got the prompt about creating a file or a directory.
This is the, rather "hackish" way I did it:
ECHO F | XCOPY /D "C:\install\dummy\dummy.pdf" "C:\Archive\fffc810e-f01a-47e8-a000-5903fc56f0ec.pdf"
XCOPY will use the "F" to indicate it should create the target as a file:
C:\install>ECHO F | XCOPY /D "C:\install\dummy\dummy.html" "C:\Archive\aa77cd6e-1d19-4eb4-b2a8-3f8fe60daf00.html"
Does C:\Archive\aa77cd6e-1d19-4eb4-b2a8-3f8fe60daf00.html specify a file name or directory name on the target
(F = file, D = directory)? F
C:\install\dummy\dummy.html
1 File(s) copied
I've also verified this command leaves existing files alone. (You should too :-)