My .exe relies on configuration and other files in it's folder.
So I'd like to start it from it's folder, but with a single line.
So instead of:
D:\APPS\Program.exe
something like:
cd D:\APPS\ Program.exe
So the root folder is D:\APPS\ instead of D:
I could make a bat file with these as separate lines.
But that's a lot of extra work.
Is there a way to execute this in a single line?
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I want to copy many text files from one folder to another. The file names are contained in another text file. So the commands should be able to read in the file names and do the copy things. I can do this with R but it's very slow. I wonder if it's possible to do this with the command line? (I can copy single file with the command line, but don't know how to copy many with for or while loop or something.) Thanks in advance.
I found this question helpful: How do you loop through each line in a text file using a windows batch file?
This is what you need to just paste into the command line. If you want to save it in a bash file you need to use %% instead of % for variables.
for /F "tokens=*" %a in (myfile.txt) do copy "%a" "new folder\%a"
This simply loops through the file, and for each line does a copy of it to the new folder. The quotes are important in case of spaces in the filenames.
Suppose I have a directory structure like
C:\Users\Desktop\abc\d
I want to rar archive the abc folder so that the structure of rar is:
abc\d
When I try using powershell to archive, winrar replicates the full path inside the archive, like:
\Users\Desktop\abc\d
I dont want the full path to be created inside the archive
Here's the script:
https://gist.github.com/saurabhwahile/50f1091fb29c2bb327b7
What am I doing wrong?
Use the command line:
Rar.exe a -r -ep1 Test.rar "C:\Users\Desktop\abc"
Rar.exe is the console version of WinRAR stored in same directory as WinRAR.exe. You can use this command line also with WinRAR.exe if you want to see the compression process in a graphic window.
a is the command and means add files to archive.
-r is a switch to recursively add all files and subdirectories including empty subdirectories to the archive.
-ep1 is another switch which results in execluding base directory.
For this command line the base directory is "C:\Users\Desktop\" and therefore the created archive Test.rar contains only abc and all files and subdirectories in directory abc which is what you want.
One more hint: Using the command line
Rar.exe a -r -ep1 Test.rar "C:\Users\Desktop\abc\"
results in adding all files and subdirectories of directory abc to the archive, but without directory name abc being also stored in the archive. The backslash at end makes this difference.
In other words: On using switch -ep1 everything up to last backslash in file/directory specification is not added to the archive.
For more information about available switches see the text file Rar.txt in the program files directory of WinRAR.
So i had this issue that occurred when I ran a Matlab script. Here is an a simple example that illustrates it:
So its important to outline the file structure:
MainFolder
script.m
SubFolder
a1.csv
a2.csv
a3.csv
now say i have a script like this:
-> script.m
dir
it would simply print out the files in the folder.
Now the wierd thing, if i run the script in the Subfolder like this:
>>script
it will do this:
>> a1.csv a2.csv a3.csv
but if i do this in the folder:
>>run('C:\Users\....\MainFolder\script.m')
it will only print out
>> script.m
So obviously it is acting as if i ran it form MainFolder rather than SubFolder.
What is the point of this functionality?
The dir command shows the directory contents of Matlab's current directory, not that of where the script is located. So the script showed you the directory contents of wherever you happened to be in the Matlab command prompt when you called that script.
To get what you want, use this in the script:
dir(fileparts(mfilename('fullpath')))
Use pwd to see current dir
Use cd to change directory
Use path to see if your project folders are included in the path
Use which to see you are calling the right *.m file (in case there is multiple .m files with same name on the path)
I am doing a batch scripting assignment where I have to call one script from inside another. I need the script to run the second script no matter where my lecturer saves these scripts. How would I do this. Is there some way to find the path of script inside the script and use that to execute the file. Any help would be great. I think I need to use %'s but i'm not sure.
The name of the script is Hello World.bat.
How would I copy Hello World.bat to the C:\ if I don't know which directory the lecturer has placed it in. what command/s would I use so that the copy would work regardless of the scripts location.
I don't see the "DOS" tag, but I'll assume that it is for now. If you want the entire path, you can get it by doing this:
echo %cd%
If you want just the last folder, this works (inside a .bat file):
for %%* in (.) do #echo %%~n*
Note that from the command line, the above command will work with single %'s:
for %* in (.) do #echo %~n*
If the script you are executing is calling other scripts in the SAME folder location, you can prefix the path statement with "%~dp0" or "%~dps0" but do not put a backslash between that and the name of the script you are calling. In other words, if script1.bat is calling script2.bat in the same folder, the statement in script1.bat would refer to "%~dp0script2.bat"
sorry about batch files, am not familiar, but in nix shell, there is the locate command which can return the path of the file , if you know the filename exactly and the name is unique.
like
name=$(locate filname)
I need to write a batch file that copies a file to a new folder and renames it.
At the moment, my batch file consists of only this command:
COPY ABC.PDF \\Documents
As you can see, it only copies the file ABC.pdf to the network folder Documents.
However I need to change this so it renames the file ABCxxx.pdf, where xxx is a text variable that I would like to set somewhere in the batch file.
For example, if xxx = _Draft, then file would be renamed ABC_Draft.pdf after it is copied.
Make a bat file with the following in it:
copy /y C:\temp\log1k.txt C:\temp\log1k_copied.txt
However, I think there are issues if there are spaces in your directory names. Notice this was copied to the same directory, but that doesn't matter. If you want to see how it runs, make another bat file that calls the first and outputs to a log:
C:\temp\test.bat > C:\temp\test.log
(assuming the first bat file was called test.bat and was located in that directory)
type C:\temp\test.bat>C:\temp\test.log