I wanna remove directories that their path listed in a txt file. some of these paths include space. for example this is my txt file contents, named rd.txt:
D:\New folder\WOW
D:\New folder (2)\here I am
so I can't use this command in batch file:
for /d %%n in (rd.txt) do rd "%%n" /s /q
what command should I use?
for /F "delims=" %%n in (rd.txt) do rd "%%n" /s /q
It does the job.
Long story short (you can use for /? to see the parameters), delims indicates what delimiters should be used, and default contains space character, so setting delims to empty value seems to be what you need.
Related
As I mentioned in Q-title, I have setup a sublime settings auto-syncing process to Github Gist of my choice when I have passed correct Access Token.
Now this process syncs any file that is present inside a folder(s), considering the relative paths, as DirName%2FFileName.extension where DirName and/or FileName may contain singular spaces(%20) between words(if >2 words in either).
Now when I download that gist thro' DownloadZIP button, it ofcourse downloads the whole gist with multiple files as single zip, which after download can be extracted into it's folder in local system(Windows 10/11 OS).
So, the question finally: When I have downloaded such zip and extracted into folder that contains one/multiple files that have %2f or %2F in their names, how do I create a directory from those filenames and move those files into those directory thro' a batch file if possible, or a PowerShell command, but runnable from Batch script, and then also rename those files to remove all DirName%2f parts from their names ? I know about mv and md commands but how do I create directory from URL coded character group and do those operations ?
Note: DirName%2f parts could be occurring in multiples like DirName1%2fDirName2%2f... if the file that is being synced from local is inside mainfolder/subfolders... relatively.
#ECHO OFF
SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
SET "#name1=DirName%%2f"
SET "#name2=DirName1%%2fDirName2%%2f"
SET "#name3=DirName1%%2FDirName2%%2F"
SET "#2f=%%2f"
SET "#subs=ABC"
SET #
FOR /f "delims=" %%e IN ("%#2f%") DO (
FOR /f "delims=" %%w IN ("!#name1:%#2f%=%#subs%!") DO ECHO REN "%#name1%" "%%w"
FOR /f "delims=" %%w IN ("!#name2:%#2f%=%#subs%!") DO ECHO REN "%#name2%" "%%w"
FOR /f "delims=" %%w IN ("!#name3:%#2f%=%#subs%!") DO ECHO REN "%#name3%" "%%w"
)
ECHO ===================
FOR %%b IN ("%#name1%" "%#name2%" "%#name3%") DO (
SET "#name=%%~b"
FOR /f "delims=" %%e IN ("%#2f%") DO (
FOR /f "delims=" %%w IN ("!#name:%#2f%=%#subs%!") DO ECHO REN %%b "%%w"
)
)
GOTO :EOF
This demo shows how in batch.
You can try :
[System.Web.HttpUtility]::UrlDecode("DirName%2FFileName.extension")
it gives :
DirName/FileName.extension
Then you can use the CmdLets with noun "Path" to manage your file names.
Get-Command -Noun path
If it exists some / in place of \, Powershel should manage them.
The to work with files and folders is given with CmdLet with noun Item :
Get-Command -Noun item
For example to create a directory :
New-Item -name toto -ItemType Directory
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"
It's annoying to manually always search in the CMD and xcopy the hidden file, can someone whos good in scipting help me out?
I use these 2 commands:
Firstly i open CMD in the FOLDER2 and entering this command to find the hidden file in the hidden random sub dir:
dir /s /b | find "robotknow"
(robotknow is not the fullname of the file, only part of it.)
And then when it find the hidden file within the random made subdir i copy the whole path including the whole filename with the ending.
Xcopy /h *The whole path including the filename and ending* C:\hello
My folders:
$sourceDir = 'C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\Packages\FOLDER1\FOLDER2'
$targetDir = 'C:\hello'
So i wish to create a batch that could search that string "robotknow" and copy the fullname of the file to my tagetdir.
Is it possible?
Im trying to learn commands but batching is harder, if i was unclear on anything please ask me thank you!
Edit:
I found few commands that could be useful but I dont know how to use them so that it works.
$searchStrings = For it to search after the string above i mentioned: "robotknow"
And
Copy-Item $_.FullName $targetpath
An example would be:
The filename has this in it's name "robotknow" and i want to copy it.
Copy the file im searching after to copy thats within the sub folder of the FOLDER2 which is an hidden random folder that i cannot se:
%LocalAppData%\Packages\FOLDER1\FOLDER2\THE-hidden-RANDOM-made-sub-DIR.
Copy it to it's final directory c:\hello
The final directory, simply just: c:\hello.
By hidden i mean that i cannot see in file explorer, windows GUI and neither if i put this simple command in CMD dir to show the hidden random folder where the file is located in, they are not showing.
The file only appears in CMD if i enter this command dir /s /b | find "robotknow" when im in the FOLDER2.
Only after that i can se the hidden random made dir/folder and the full hidden path to it (the file).
I suggest following batch file code for this task:
#echo off
setlocal EnableExtensions DisableDelayedExpansion
set "SourceFolder=%LocalAppData%\Packages\FOLDER1\FOLDER2"
set "TargetFolder=C:\hello"
for /F "delims=" %%I in ('dir "%SourceFolder%\*robotknow*" /A-D /B /S 2^>nul') do %SystemRoot%\System32\xcopy.exe "%%~dpI*" "%TargetFolder%\" /C /E /H /K /Q /R /Y >nul
endlocal
The command FOR with option /F starts a separate command process with cmd.exe /C (more precisely %ComSpec% /C) in background to run the command line:
dir "C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\Packages\FOLDER1\FOLDER2\*robotknow*" /A-D /B /S 2>nul
DIR outputs to handle STDOUT of background command process
just the names of all files matching the wildcard pattern *robotknow* because of option /A-D (attribute not directory)
even on file having hidden attribute set because of using option /A and not excluding attribute hidden
in bare format because of option /B
with full qualified path because of option /S
found in specified directory or any subdirectory also because of option /S.
It is possible that DIR does not find any file system entry matching these criteria in which case it outputs an error message to handle STDERR. This error message is suppressed by redirecting it to device NUL.
Read the Microsoft article about Using Command Redirection Operators for an explanation of 2>nul. The redirection operator > must be escaped with caret character ^ on FOR command line to be interpreted as literal character when Windows command interpreter processes this command line before executing command FOR which executes the embedded dir command line with using a separate command process started in background.
FOR with option /F captures all lines output to handle STDOUT of started command process and processes them line by line after started cmd.exe terminated itself.
FOR ignores empty lines which do not occur here. FOR ignores by default also all lines starting with a semicolon because of eol=; is the default for end of line character option. But a full qualified file name consisting of full file path, file name and file extension cannot start with ; and so default end of line option can be kept in this case. FOR splits up the lines by default into substrings with using normal space and horizontal tab character as string delimiters and assigns just first space/tab separated substring to specified loop variable. This line splitting behavior is not wanted here because of file path could contain a space character. For that reason option delims= is used to define an empty list of delimiters which disables the line splitting behavior.
So FOR assigns to specified and case-sensitive interpreted loop variable I the full qualified file name found and output by DIR and runs the command XCOPY.
XCOPY is executed with source being the full qualified path of found file referenced with %%~dpI always ending with a backslash concatenated with wildcard * and destination directory being specified target folder C:\hello.
The appended backslash at end of destination directory path makes it 100% clear for XCOPY that the destination is a directory and not a file which prevents the prompt if destination means a directory or a file. \ at end makes also usage of option /I unnecessary and XCOPY creates the entire destination directory structure if necessary.
The other XCOPY options are for really copying all files including files with hidden attribute set in directory containing the file matching the wildcard pattern *robotknow* with all subdirectories including empty subdirectories to destination directory with keeping attributes including read-only attribute.
For understanding the used commands and how they work, open a command prompt window, execute there the following commands, and read entirely all help pages displayed for each command very carefully.
dir /?
echo /?
endlocal /?
set /?
setlocal /?
xcopy /?
See also the list of predefined Windows Environment Variables.
I have command line argument for importing existing project into eclipse work space. But as soon as I try to execute it using windows batch file eclipse opens and starts loading and closes immediately. Here is the code that I am trying to run.
ECHO on
PUSHD
SET ECLPSE=%cd%
SET WORKSPACE=%~dp0
POPD
SET PATH=%PATH%;%ECLPSE%\bin;
RD /s /q %ECLPSE%\configuration\org.eclipse.equinox.app > Nul
RD /s /q %ECLPSE%\configuration\org.eclipse.osgi > Nul
RD /s /q %ECLPSE%\configuration\org.eclipse.update > Nul
START /B %ECLPSE%\bin\tresos_gui.exe -Dmsg1085=false -data %WORKSPACE% %*
START /B %ECLPSE%\bin\tresos_gui.exe importProject -c C:\Jenkins\jobs
This is the syntax for importing a project into the workspace.
tresos_cmd.bat [<system_property>...] [-data <workspace>]
importProject [-c] <project path>...
Can someone please help me with this. I would really appreciate it. I have even combined last two statements in one line and tried executing it but it is of no use. My main aim is to automate the process of importing project into eclipse workspace so that software can be built using jenkins.
All folder paths containing %ECLPSE% or %WORKSPACE% should be enclosed in double quotes in case of %cd% and/or %~dp0 expand to a folder path with a space character or one of the characters &()[]{}^=;!'+,`~.
I did not really understand what is the goal of the batch file and what tresos_gui.exe is for.
However, here is an improved and commented batch file.
#echo off
setlocal EnableExtensions
rem Path of current directory hold in environment variable CD usually does
rem not end with a backslash (directory separator on Windows). But if the
rem current directory is the root directory of a drive, the directory path
rem ends with a backslash. Assign current directory path to environment
rem variable ECLPSE (strange name) always without a trailing backslash.
if not "%CD:~-1%" == "\" ( set "ECLPSE=%CD%" ) else ( set "ECLPSE=%CD:~0,-1%" )
rem Path of batch file always ends with a backslash, but should be assigned
rem to environment variable WORKSPACE always without a trailing backslash.
set "WORKSPACE=%~dp0"
set "WORKSPACE=%WORKSPACE:~0,-1%"
rem The environment variable PATH can end with a folder path or with a
rem semicolon after last folder path. The subdirectory BIN in current
rem directory should be appended with an additional semicolon only if
rem environment variable PATH does not already end with a semicolon.
if "%PATH:~-1%" == ";" ( set "PATH=%PATH%%ECLPSE%\bin" ) else ( set "PATH=%PATH%;%ECLPSE%\bin" )
rem Command RD does not print any message on success. It prints only an error
rem message to handle STDERR if the directory tree could not be removed.
rd /Q /S "%ECLPSE%\configuration\org.eclipse.equinox.app" 2>nul
rd /Q /S "%ECLPSE%\configuration\org.eclipse.osgi" 2>nul
rd /Q /S "%ECLPSE%\configuration\org.eclipse.update" 2>nul
rem Command START interprets first double quoted string as title for the
rem command process window. Therefore specify as first parameter just ""
rem which is an empty title string.
rem The start of tresos_gui.exe is done for some unknown reason in a separate
rem process in background. Hold execution of batch file until this separate
rem process terminated itself before running tresos_gui.exe a second time
rem to import the project and best wait again until this process terminated.
start "" /WAIT /B "%ECLPSE%\bin\tresos_gui.exe" -Dmsg1085=false -data "%WORKSPACE%" %*
start "" /WAIT /B "%ECLPSE%\bin\tresos_gui.exe" importProject -c C:\Jenkins\jobs
endlocal
For understanding the used commands and how they work, open a command prompt window, execute there the following commands, and read entirely all help pages displayed for each command very carefully.
call /? ... explains %*
cmd /? ... explains with last paragraph on last help page when double quotes are required.
echo /?
endlocal /?
if /?
rd /?
rem /?
setlocal /?
start /?
And read also the Microsoft TechNet article Using command redirection operators for an explanation of 2>nul.
I'm trying to recurse through my music directory and copy every file called folder.jpg to a file in the same directory called cover.jpg.
I've tried variations of suggestions in this question such as this:
for /r %i in (folder.jpg) do copy %i cover.jpg
Resulting in "The system cannot find the file specified."
How can I solve this problem?
Edit
Here's what I ended up going with:
for /r %i in (folder.jpg) do copy "%i" "%~picover.jpg"
Try this:
for /f "usebackq delims==" %I in (`dir /b /s ^| findstr folder.jpg`) do copy "%I" "%~pIcover.jpg"
Decoder Ring:
usebackq :: run the command in the backquotes and use the output as the input for the loop
delims== :: use the equal sign as a delimeter. Really you could use any character that isn't valid in a file name
dir /b /s :: do a recursive directory listing only outputting the bare file names
^| :: ^ escapes the pipe character, the pipe - well pipes the output from the first command to the second
findstr :: searches the input for matching lines, and only outputs them
%~pI :: the tilde p instructs the variable expansion to only output the path rather than full file name + path. Note, this includes a trailing \
I hope this helps!
You are missing double-quotes on the copy command.
The %i variable will be holding the full-path to the file -- which may contain spaces.
Try using:
for /r %i in (folder.jpg) do copy "%i" cover.jpg
You probably don't have any files in your music folder called folder.jpg so it fails right?
I tried this in mymusic folder with a dummy file called folder.jpg and it copied it normally. ;)
Edit:
Kishi is right, you are missing the double quotes on the second %i
PowerShell must replace CMD. It is inevitable and righteous. And it's my job to help it along...
gci -r . folder.jpg | % { copy $_.FullName ([IO.Path]::Combine( $_.Directory.FullName, "cover.jpg" )) }
You could just use xcopy with the /s flag...
EDIT:
My bad - didn't read the question properly. Xcopy with /s will help when just copying the files to a fixed destination.