My source folder has many text files with different names. I only want to transfer text files that starts with "MY" only.
For example: MY123.txt
How can I filter out those files to send to destination folder using robocopy? My current query as shown below.
robocopy "user\log" "D:\user\log2\files" /MAXAGE:20210401
are you looking for something like this?
robocopy "user\log" "D:\user\log2\files" "MY*" /MAXAGE:20210401
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I have a set of folders which have new files being added to them regularly, but I have to process those files as they come in. This can be a time consuming process to dig into each folder one by one. I need to figure out how to write a script that will filter out the new files, and copy them into a new directory.
So far I have figured out how to use the Get-ChildItem -Path -Recurse command in powershell to list the new items in the corresponding folders as shown in the third script on this Microsoft page.
So I can see the new files in their folders. How do I copy those items to the destination folder while replicating their original folder structure? I want to be able to recreate the original folders so that I can just overwrite the originals with the edited versions later.
I discovered robocopy, and was able to use it to solve my problem. The /maxage:x option was perfect for my needs.
I use the command to extract only the folders containing a specific name, but now I want to know if it is possible to make 7zip extract only .txt files that have at least one word of my choice in them. Like for example
& 'C:\Program Files\7-zip7z.exe' x *.* -o(directory) *.txt (word I want to have inside the .txt e.g. password)
I used this command as an example of what I wanted it to look like, but in reality it only works for extracting just the filename
If you also have another way to do this with compressed files other than 7zip, I will be happy with any help
I have a situation that I need to merge files again by file names. Now, I have files in one folder like this -
A1.pdf,
A2.pdf,
B1.pdf,
C1.pdf,
C2.pdf,
C3.pdf.
The goal is to merge files by file names and I will get A.pdf, B.pdf, C.pdf. I tried different things in the batch file, but none worked so far. Can you please help?
The real files names are like this below.
115_11W0755_70258130_841618403_01.PDF
115_12W0332_70258122_202990692_01.PDF
115_12W0332_70258122_202990692_02.PDF
115_12W0332_70258122_202990692_03.PDF
115_14W0491_70258174_562605608_01.PDF
115_14W0491_70258174_562605608_02.PDF
115_14W0776_70258143_680477806_01.PDF
115_16W0061_70258083_942231888_01.PDF
115_16W0065_70258176_202990692_01.PDF
115_16W0065_70258176_202990692_02.PDF
the 3rd part (70258083) is the element that works as uinque per batch. In other words, I want to merge files per this element. from the file names listed above, there will be 6 PDF files.
I am using the batch script below to merge two files into one. I don't know how to tweak this to more than 2 files to merge OR leave a single file alone.
Please help.
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
for %%# in (115_*.pdf) do (
set n=%%~n#
set n=!n:~,-30!
pdftk A=!n!.pdf B=%%# cat B A output C:\IN\_fileNames\Merge\Files\!n!.pdf
)
here is the error screen
I'm currently working on a project where I take multiple 7z files and extract the contents of these files in a folder named the same way as the 7z file itself. I also apologize if something like this has been answered already; I spent time trying to investigate this issue but I can't seem to find anyone else who has had a similar issue.
For example:
a1.7z -> <targetpath>/a1/<contents within a1.7z>
The following shell line: a1.7z | % {& "C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" "x" $_.fullname "-o<targetpath>\a1" -y -r}
Works like a dream, but only for one 7z file. However, whenever I start extracting a second 7z file, it won't create a new folder but instead will continue to add into the same first folder that is created; second folder is never made. When I manually highlight all of the 7z files I want to extract, right click and select "Extract to "*\", it does what I would like it to do but I can't figure out how to script this action. I should also mention that some of the 7z files, when extracted, can contain subfolders of the same name. I'm not sure if this is throwing off the recursion cycle, but I'm assuming this might be the case.
Any help or advice on this topic would be greatly appreciated!
If you get all the .7z files as IOFileInfo objects (Using get-ChildItem) you can use Mathias comment, as one way to do this with the pipeline, but I recommend you put this inside a loop and look for a better way to choose the names of the folders I.e. "NofFolder_$_.BaseName" just in case of more than 1 folder with the same name.
It really depends on the format you want.
I would like to compare two folders, and the differences between them, I would like to save in a third directory, keeping the original file-tree.
Can I do this with Robocopy?
Thank you