REM Detect how many files are on the C: drive
dir /s /b C:\ |find /c "\" > NUMfiles.###
set /p count1=<NUMfiles.###
##### TEMP FILES DELETED HERE, RUN CCLEANER, RUN MBAM, ETC #####
REM Calculate Total Files Deleted
dir /s /b C:\ |find /c "\" > NUMfiles.###
set /p count2=<NUMfiles.###
set /a count3=%count1% - %count2%
echo Number of files removed: %count3%
This doesn't seem to be giving me an accurate reading. Can anyone help?
I do a manual check via command line using the 'dir /s /b C:\ |find /c "\"' before the script, and at the end. And the output from '%count3% isn't accurate from my subtraction from the manual checks. Hope you understand my question.
Yes, as snemarch montined, the fact that you list everything and temporary files could as well be added/deleted by another process meanwhile invalidate the entire effort.
On a side note, adding "/a-d" to the "dir" command would remove the directories from being listed, thus not needing VonC's "find /v "" addition to the process, if you insist on checking files only.
Could you not check file while they get deleted instead? Not sure what you use this for but you definately need to rethink the way from source, the deleting part.
My suggestion.
If you must iterate on the all content, this command line might be more precise to list the number of files (files, not directories):
dir /a /s /OG C:\ |find /v "<DIR>" | find /c "M "
Off course, this assume a dir does display 'AM ' or 'PM '.
If it does not, the following should works better:
dir /a /s /OG C:\ |find /v "<DIR>" | find /c "/"
Related
This is my current code
xcopy "C:\Users\Asus\Desktop\Test\Test.MDB" "C:\Users\Asus\Google Drive\" /Y /H /E /F /I
exit
I need the code to do something like:
xcopy "C:\Users\Asus\Desktop\Test\Test.MDB" "C:\Users\Asus\Google Drive\Test (4-21-18).MDB" /Y /H /E /F /I
exit
I need to back up the files every 2 weeks in the task scheduler and I need the script to automatically add the date of the back-up. Also, I have looked at the list of commands (e.g. /Y /H /E) and I cannot find one that describes non-overwriting in the destination folder. I need the back-ups to pile up and not get deleted every time the code runs.
You can add %date%
If you want to create folders with the date and put the file in it,
use like this to join the date to a foldername (D:\myFolder15-04-2020):
xcopy /y /q /s "c:\myFolder\*" "D:\myFolder"%date%"\"
or a folder name with just the date: (D:\15-05-2020)
xcopy /y /q /s "c:\myFolder\*" "D:\"%date%"\"
If you want to put the files in the same folder and change the file name use:
xcopy /y /q /s "c:\myFolder\*" "D:\myFolder\"%date%".MDB*"
The trick is:
"\" at the end of the command means a folder name
"*" at the end of the command means a file name
You can do this. Maybe exist better solutions but it will be working and Additionally, this is an approach for more than one file.
XCOPY /Y /H /E /F /I C:\Users\Asus\Desktop\Test\*.MDB
rem get date, make if file name friendly
FOR /F "tokens=1-4 delims=/ " %%i in ('date/t') do set d=%%i-%%j-%%k-%%l
set MDB=*.%d%.MDB
ren *.MDB %mdb%
move C:\Users\Asus\Desktop\Test\*.MDB C:\Users\Asus\Google Drive\Test\
Hope this help.
You can create a bat file, get the current date in a variable and have this variable as part of the file name.
This bat file works:
for /f "skip=1" %%x in ('wmic os get localdatetime') do if not defined MyDate
set MyDate=%%x
set today=%MyDate:~4,2%-%MyDate:~6,2%-%MyDate:~2,2%
mkdir "C:\Users\Asus\Google Drive\Test (%today%).MDB"
xcopy "C:\Users\Asus\Desktop\Test\Test.MDB" "C:\Users\Asus\Google Drive\Test (%today%).MDB" /Y /H /E /F /I
exit
This code first saves the current date in "MyDate" variable.
Then the desired date format is saved in "today" variable.
Finally the content of the "today" variable is used as part of the file name that is passed in "xcopy" as an argument.
Mkdir makes sure that the directory is first created before xcopy is used.
This prevents the xcopy question <F = file, D= directory>? that pops out.
If a path refers to a file or directory that does not exist, xcopy considers it reasonable to first ask you what it is. Alternatively you could add a '\' in the end of the directory path to indicate that it is a directory.
It works! "echo F|" to auto confirm that you copy a file in the cmd prompt.
call set currentDate=%date:/=-%
call set currentDate=%currentDate:~-10%
echo F|xcopy "C:\Users\Asus\Desktop\Test\Test.MDB" "C:\Users\Asus\Google Drive\Test (%currentDate%).MDB" /Y /H /E /F
exit
I am working first time with xcopy and I have to copy all files that are older then a specific date.
The parameter /d copys all newer files then the specific date.
Is there any way to copy older files?
And it has to be with xcopy, robocopy is not an option.
Thanks
The xcopy command unfortunately does not have an option for selecting files older than a certain date, so, also unfortunatly, robocopy is the only option.
The robocopy command offers a /minage:MM-DD-YYYY parameter (that's what i'm calling it anyway) that selects files with a minimum age of MM-DD-YYYY.
Your syntax should look something like this:
ROBOCOPY Source_folder Destination_folder /minage:MM-DD-YYYY [options]
Here is more information if it is needed:
https://ss64.com/nt/robocopy.html
To add to ivyomni's answer of combining forfiles and xcopy, I did this:
set startDate=10-4-2021
for /d %%i in (*.*) do (
pushd %%i
Echo now in %%i
Rem: The following is sort of a cheat. The forfiles sets the maxdate and the xcopy sets the min date
echo on
forfiles /M *.zip /D -10/09/2021 /C "cmd /c xcopy #file C:\ZipFilesForLogAnalysis_Temp /D:%startDate% "
echo off
popd
)
I solved it with a forfiles infront of the the xcopy. Thanks for the replies.
I am trying to copy one folder and its contents to multiple user directories which vary depending on the username. The directory under each user will remain constant.
Here is an example of what I am trying to achieve:
xcopy "C:\OF" "C:\Users\*\AppData\Roaming" /O /X /E /H /K /S
I am trying to use a wildcard because the username is different, but xcopy apparently cannot use wildcards any longer?
The directory of "C:\OF" will have files and other nested directories and I want to place those under the "Roaming" directory.
Thank you for any help and explanation of what I am doing wrong.
Put this in a batch file:
#ECHO OFF
FOR /d %%I IN (C:\Users\*) DO (
XCOPY "C:\OF" "%%I\AppData\Roaming"/O /X /E /H /K /S
)
That should do want you want. I didn't validate your XCOPY switches because I stopped using XCOPY years ago in favor of ROBOCOPY.
This will do the trick.
#echo off
for /d %%x in (C:\Users\*) do xcopy "C:\OF" "%%x\AppData\Roaming\OF\*" /d /e
pause
EXIT
I have a batch file I would like to search a folder for any xlsm file updated today.
If it finds an xlsm file from today, it then runs another bat file. If there is no updated file it should run a .vbs file (to send an email) and then exit.
Currently I have the following:
#echo off
set var=%date:~-10%
dir "*.xlsm"|find "%var%">nul&&CALL Update.bat||EXIT
I think I probably need to include some sort of IF/ELSE instead of the current method, but my skills are lacking..
EDIT:
The actual solution I've gone with, based on the answer from #Monacraft is:
#echo off
forfiles /p C:\ /m *.xlsm /d 0 /c "cmd /c call Update.bat"
if ERRORLEVEL 1 start FailEmail.vbs
If using windows 7 you could do forfiles:
#echo off
set found=FALSE
forfiles /p "C:\...[path to folder]" /m *.xlsm /d +1 /c "cmd /c Echo Updating...&CALL Update.bat&set found=TRUE"
if /i %found%==False (
start email.vbs
) else (
Exit
)
And that should work fine
Mona
This worked for me:
#echo off
forfiles /p C:\ /m *.xlsm /d 0 /c "cmd /c call Update.bat"
if ERRORLEVEL 1 start FailEmail.vbs
I think your code should work - some small changes here.
It will just echo the commands to the screen, for you to test.
One point to consider is that the DIR command will also match *.xls files in the short name.
#echo off
set "var=%date:~-10%"
dir "*.xlsm"|find "%var%">nul && (echo CALL Update.bat) || (echo start failemail.vbs)
pause
I am using the following command to dump the complete file listings recursively from a directory.
dir /b /s c:\myfolder > c:\mylist.txt
This works fine but it is display the results with the full path as well, beacuse I am using a regex expression on the results I need them to display only the filenames.
Anyone any ideas?
Kind of an old question but if someone stumbles across this hoping for an answer, perhaps this will help them out.
Running this from the windows command line (CMD.exe) use:
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
for /f "delims=" %a in ('dir /b /s c:\myfolder"') do (#echo %~nxa >>c:\mylist.txt)
endlocal
Running this from a windows .BAT script use:
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
for /f "delims=" %%a in ('dir /b /s c:\myfolder"') do (#echo %%~nxa >>c:\mylist.txt)
endlocal
The output might look something like this depending on what files are in the folder you're running the code in:
file1.fil
file2.fil
file3.fil
UNDERSTANDING WHAT THE CODE IS DOING
for /f
means to run a loop through files in this case using the dir /b /s command to help get those files names from directories (folders) and subdirectories (subfolders). As stated in the question, this will give you complete paths to the files. So instead of file.txt you will get C:\folder\file.txt.
"delims="
in this case tells the for loop that it wants the variable %a or %%a
to only have 1 folderpath and filename for every loop.
%a (CMD.exe) %%a (.BAT)
as mentioned above is a variable that changes with each loop. so
everytime the command dir /b /s finds a new filename the variable
%%a changes to the filename.
example:
Loop 1: %%a = c:\folder\file1.fil
Loop 2: %%a = c:\folder\file2.fil
dir /b /s
is the command to print out the files of a directory (folder). By
using the /b and /s the questioner is adding additional criteria.
the command dir not only prints out the files and directories
(folders) in that directory (folder) but also some additional
information about the directory.
the /b tells the command dir that it doesn't want the additional
information.. just the filenames.
The /s tells the command dir to include all the files and
subdirectories (subfolders) in that folder.
do
is the part of the loop that tells what to do during that particular
loop. So in this case it is only doing this one command every loop
(#echo %%~nxa >>c:\mylist.txt)
#echo
is a simple command that prints out whatever you want either to your
computer screen or in this case to a txt file by using #echo %%~nxa
>>c:\mylist.txt
the >> before c:\mylist.txt is especially important. Every time a
loop happens it starts a new line in the txt file and writes the
variable to that line. If only one > is specified it will overwrite
the line in the txt file everytime the loop happens. Which will
defeat the purpose of what this script is designed to do.
%~nxa (CMD.exe) %%~nxa (.BAT)
is the variable %%a as mentioned above except it is parsed (edited)
out the way the questioner #fightstarr20 asked for. Instead of
printing out the variable as C:\myfolder\myfile.fil the variable
will print out as myfile.fil
the ~ in %%~nxa tells the program you want to modify the variable
%%a. In this case by adding n and x.
the n in %%~nxa tells the program you want to modify the variable %%a by
excluding the path from the variable.
example.
-variable %%a = C:\folder\filename.fil
-variable %%~na = filename.
-If you notice however that it leaves the extension .fil off of the filename.
the x in %%~nxa tells the program you want to modify the variable %%a
by excluding the path and the filename from the variable, so all you will get is the extension of the filename.
example.
-variable %%a = C:\folder\filename.fil
-variable %%~xa = .fil
so if you combine both of the modifiers n and x to the variable %%a
you will get the full filename including the extension.
example:
-variable %%a = c:\folder\filename.fil
-variable %%~nxa = filename.fil
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
explained simply is a command that needs to be in the script before
the for loop in order to allow the variable %%a to be modified or "expanded".
endlocal
this turns off the setlocal enabledelayedexpansion command
To get a very helpful explanation and reference for CMD commands I recommend reading ss64.com and for a great forum to get CMD answers I'd recommend dostips.com
Change your regex to get the filename from the entire path.
If you can use powershell, look at Get-ChildItem. You can have more powerful options with it.
Use it like this
dir /b /s C:\myfolder>C:\temp.txt
echo exit>>C:\temp.txt
goto loop
:loop
set /p _x=<temp.txt
findstr /v /c:"%_x%" temp.txt>temp2.txt
type temp2.txt>temp.txt
set _x=%_x:*\=%
echo %_x%>file.txt
if "%_x%" == "exit" (
del temp.txt
del temp2.txt
exit
)
goto loop
You can use for instead of goto if you like, but it will be basicaly the same.
Sorry about the last one...
I know I'm a bit late, but it hurts me that nobody said to take away the /s
dir /b c:\myfolder > c:\mylist.txt
That should do it.
This would surely work, as it works for me.
dir D:(Path to files) /s /b >d:\filelist.txt
You can just use this code:
dir /b > A_fileslist.txt
Copy inside a notepad editor and save as "Fileslist.bat".