I have a folder containing many files named as such: JBMA_23456.docx, JMRI_21456.docx, CM_22554.docx, QUA_11224.docx. How do I create a sub-folder for each file bearing the same name as the file but without the .docx file extension? Additionally, I want to store the filename only as variables.
For example, I need to create a sub-folder named JBMA_23456 from the document
JBMA_23456.docx. Can anyone point me in teh right direction?
#echo off
for %%A in (*.docx) do if not exist "%%~nA" md "%%~nA"
This creates a folder with the same name as each .docx file.
View modifiers in for /? or in call /?. The n modifier is the name.
Path modifiers:
dpnx is drive, path, name and extension.
Here's an example batch file which attempts to perform the tasks as laid out in your question:
#Echo Off
SetLocal EnableExtensions DisableDelayedExpansion
Set "BaseDir=C:\Users\Compo\Desktop\test"
Set "FileExt=.docx"
For /F "Delims==" %%A In ('Set var[ 2^>Nul') Do Set "%%A="
Set "i=0"
For /F "Delims=" %%A In ('Where "%BaseDir%":*%FileExt% 2^>Nul') Do (Set /A i+=1
Call Set "var[%%i%%]=%%~nA"
If Exist "%%~dpA%%~nA\" (Echo Sub-Folder %%~nA already exists in %BaseDir%
) Else (Set /P "=Creating sub-folder %%~nA in %BaseDir%"<Nul
MD "%%~dpA%%~nA">Nul 2>&1 && (Echo= was successful) || Echo= failed))
Set var[ 2>Nul
Pause
In order to use it, you would first ensure that the directory holding your files, (excluding any trailing backslash), is placed between the = and " on line 4, and the single file extension, (including the leading period, .), similarly on line 5.
It is not entirely clear what you are asking for...
Anyway, here is the code i made
echo off
chcp 65001
cls
for /f "usebackq delims=." %%0 in (`dir /b "*.docx"`) do (
set filename=%%0
md %filename%
)
cmd /k
It creates a new folder for every file. Feel free to ask if this was not what you expected
Related
I am in the middle of batch extracting screenshots for contents we are planning to use on a tube site I am working on.
The jpeg files per content is labled as followed:
6c82c0239f6eb839-1
6c82c0239f6eb839-2
all the way to 120
The file name is different per content
a82384e2c46ba4af-1
a82384e2c46ba4af-2
etc.
They will all be extracted to a singe folder.
So I basically need a batch file that will create folders based on the content name without the dash and number and move all 120 jpegs in the folder with the content name.
For example:
Create folder named 6c82c0239f6eb839 and
move 6c82c0239f6eb839-1 to 6c82c0239f6eb839-120 in to the created folder.
I saw another thread with the following batch file. its pretty much what I want but the folder name is only 3 characters long and the files are copied to the newly created folders instead of moving them.
#echo off
SetLocal EnableDelayedExpansion
for /F "delims=" %%a in ('dir /b *.jpeg') do (
set Name=%%a
set Folder=!Name:~0,3!
xcopy /y "%%a" !Folder!\
)
Could someone change this so that it will display full file name without the dash and number for the folders and move files in its respective folders instead of copy?
Thank you
#echo off
setlocal
#rem Get each jpeg file.
for /F "delims=" %%A in ('2^>nul dir /b *.jpeg') do (
rem Get filename as token before the dash.
for /f "delims=-" %%B in ("%%~A") do (
rem Make dir if needed.
if not exist "%%~B" md "%%~B"
rem Check if isdir.
2>nul pushd "%%~B" && popd
if errorlevel 1 (
>&2 echo Failed isdir "%%~B".
) else (
rem Do the move operation.
>nul move /y "%%~A" "%%~B"
if errorlevel 1 (
>&2 echo Failed move "%%~A" to "%%~B"
)
)
)
)
exit /b %errorlevel%
The code is well remarked so if you want to understand
the evaluated code by changing #echo off to #echo on.
The use of %errorlevel% after the exit /b is not
required though will let you know what the errorlevel is
when #echo on is used.
The pushd tests for a directory
(even if it is a symlink).
errorlevel is checked to decide if to echo a
error message or do the move.
As the for loop variables are used direct, use of
enabledelayedexpansion is not needed.
Many commands support the argument of /? to get help
about the command. i.e. move /?.
If you only try to copy the correct jpeg to the correct folder, you can do this:
#echo off
SetLocal EnableDelayedExpansion
CD <CORRECT ROOT PATH>
for /F "delims=" %%a in ('dir /b *.jpeg') do (
set Name=%%a
REM I presume all the files have 16 characters before the dash
set Folder=!Name:~0,16!
IF NOT EXIST !Folder! MKDIR !FOLDER!
xcopy /y "%%a" !Folder!\
)
I was not able to test.
First of all, I would like to apologize for my manners regarding my initial post.
The answer by micheal_heath has resolved my issue.
Furthermore, I happened to find this post by user Salmon Trout from a different site which also worked.
Batch file to make folders with part of file name and then copy files
#echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
for %%A in (*.psd *.jpg) do (
echo file found %%A
for /f "delims=" %%B in ("%%A") do set fname=%%~nB
for /f "delims=" %%C in ("%%A") do set fextn=%%~xC
for /f "tokens=1* delims=_" %%D in ("!fname!") do set folname=%%D
echo folder name !folname!
if not exist "!folname!" (
echo Folder !folname! does not exist, creating
md "!folname!"
) else (
echo Folder !folname! exists
)
echo Moving file %%A to folder !folname!
move "%%A" "!folname!"
)
echo Finished
pause
I just changed the the following line remove the hypen and numbers to create folders for the file name properly.
for /f "tokens=1* delims=-***" %%D in ("!fname!") do set folname=%%D
I still lack the knowledge on why and how both methods work, but this has been an interesting start for me. I hope other beginners trying to solve a similar issue can find something useful from this post.
I have some of log files formatted like this "name.log"
I would like to copy those from one folder to another folder like
xcopy /y "C:\Folder1" "D:\Folder2"
And i need to rename file with created date of original file (no copy file) so that the text file in Folder2 would be like "name yyyymmddhhmm.log" if some file has the same name (date of creation) it will be overwritten.
The code:
set Source=C:\Users\user1\Desktop\Folder1
set Dest=D:\Folder2
if not exist %Dest% md %Dest%
for /F %%a in ('dir /b "%Source%\*.txt"') do call :Sub %%a
goto :eof
:Sub
set "filename=%1"
for /F %%s in ("%Source%\%1") do if %%~zs==0 goto :eof
set "datepart="
FOR /F "tokens=1-5 delims=/-: " %%a IN ('dir /tc "%filename%" ^| findstr "%filename%"') DO (
IF "%%c" neq "" SET "datepart=%%c%%a%%b%%d%%e"
)
FOR /F %%a IN ("%filename%") DO (
set "NewName=%%~na %datepart%%%~xa"
)
xcopy /y "%Source%\%filename%" "%Dest%\%NewName%*"
GOTO :EOF
The problem is that If I don't put the .bat in the same folder that origin files (Folder1),the files aren't change name. For example, if it is out, the files change name with old name and one white space.
The command windows tell me that it doesn't find the file when it get the creation date.
If I put the script into folder1 it works well.
On the other hand, if I execute the script with "Task Scheduler" I have the same problem. The files are copied but without date of creation.
What do I need to solve this problem?
#ECHO OFF
SETLOCAL
set Source=C:\Users\user1\Desktop\Folder1
set Dest=D:\Folder2
set "Source=u:\sourcedir\t w o"
set "Dest=u:\destdir"
if not exist "%Dest%" md "%Dest%"
for /F "delims=" %%k in ('dir /b "%Source%\*.log"') do call :Sub "%%k"
goto :eof
:Sub
SET "newname=%~1"
for /F "delims=" %%s in ("%Source%\%~1") do (if %%~zs==0 goto :eof
FOR /F "tokens=1-5 delims=/-: " %%a IN ('dir /tc "%Source%\%~1" ^| findstr "%~1"') DO (
IF "%%c" neq "" SET "newname=%%~ns %%c%%a%%b%%d%%e%%~xs"
)
)
ECHO(xcopy /y "%Source%\%~1" "%Dest%\%NewName%"
GOTO :EOF
The required XCOPY commands are merely ECHOed for testing purposes. After you've verified that the commands are correct, change ECHO(XCOPY to XCOPY to actually copy the files. Append >nul to suppress report messages (eg. 1 file copied)
This may seem quite a radical change, but actually it really isn't.
First issue is that I overrode your directory settings with directories to suit my system. The syntax SET "var=value" (where value may be empty) is used to ensure that any stray trailing spaces are NOT included in the value assigned. set /a can safely be used "quoteless".
Using quotes in the md command makes the procedure immune to "paths containing separators" - I test using spaces in paths and filenames because that appears to be a popular thing to do.
I changed the directory-scan metavariable from %%a to %%k to avoid confusion with the %%a in the subroutine. Your text says that you are starting with &.log files, but your filemask was *.txt so I changed it to *.log. Quoting the parameter delivered to :Sub means the procedure will receive the entire name of the file if it contains spaces.
Within the subroutine, it would appear that yowant no name-change if the %%c part from the dir/tc scan is empty. %~1 is the supplied filename minus the quotes.
The outer loop in %%s : I added delims= to cater for spaces in filenames and used %~1 in preference to %filename%
Within the %%s block, %%s refers to the file, so you can use %%s and its modified forms like %%~zs to refer to that file's characteristics - which unfortunately do not include create-date (%%~ts contains the last-update date - you may be able to use that in te following line rather than dir and findstr)
Then as #aschipfi suggested, include the source directory in the dir otherwise the dir takes place on the current directory.
FOR /F "tokens=1-5 delims=/-: " %%a IN ("%%~ts") DO (
should work for you if you can use last-update-date in place of create-date.
So - if %%c is not empty, set the new name to (the name part of the file in %%s)+space+the date string+(the extension in %%s)
And then do the xcopy - using the old name unless it was modified.
I downloaded about 34000 books in .txt format from Project Gutenberg. Now I want to rename all of them by its content. For example every text file includes its "Title" and "Author's Name" so I want to rename all the text files on its "Title" and "Author's Name" by some commands.
I created a batch file. It runs but is not renaming the files. This is my code:
#echo off&setlocal
cd E:\Test
for /f "delims=" %%i in ('dir /a-d/b *.txt') do (
set "nname="
set "fname=%%~i"
for /f "usebackqskip=7delims=" %%f in ("%%~i") do if not defined nname
set "nname=%%f"
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
set "nname=!nname:~0,40!"
echo rename "!fname!" "!nname!"
endlocal
)
You can use this as a base
#echo off
setlocal enableextensions disabledelayedexpansion
rem Change to source folder
pushd "e:\test" && (
rem Where the renamed files will be placed to avoid re-rename
if not exist renamed\ md renamed
rem For each input file
for %%f in (*.txt) do (
rem Retrieve the data from inside the file
set "author=" & set "title="
for /f "tokens=1,* delims=: " %%a in ('
findstr /b "Author: Title:" "%%~ff"
') do if not defined %%a set "%%a=%%b"
rem If the fields have been retrieved then do the rename
if defined author if defined title (
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
for /f "delims=" %%a in ("!author! - !title!") do (
endlocal
echo move "%%~ff" "renamed\%%a%%~xf"
rem NOTE: operation is only echoed to console
rem if console output seems correct, then
rem remove the echo command
)
)
)
rem Done. Return to previous active directory
popd
)
Of course, filesystem has rules about what is allowed in a file name and, not knowing what kind of characters can be found, this code could and probably will fail to rename some files.
Your current script will just print the rename commands, not execute them. You should remove echo (after checking what it produces) in this line:
echo rename "!fname!" "!nname!"
Your script also has a few formatting issues. There should be spaces like this:
for /f "usebackq skip=7 delims=" %%f in ("%%~i") do
And there should be no newline just after:
if not defined nname
I have about 1000 images and they have name like "IMG-12223". I want to rename them to 1 2 3 4 ... 1000. How can I do that. I have written a batch script which list the files but I don't know how to rename each file. e.g. rename first image with name "IMG-12223" to 1 , second image with name "IMG-23441" to 2 and so on ...
for /r %%i in (*) do (
echo %c%
)
Here's the script. Just put the script in your folder and run it.
#echo off & setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
set a=1
for /f "delims=" %%i in ('dir /b *') do (
if not "%%~nxi"=="%~nx0" (
ren "%%i" "!a!"
set /a a+=1
)
)
If you want to keep the extensions, i.e. rename "IMG-12223.jpg", "IMG-12224.jpg", etc to "1.jpg", "2.jpg", etc, you may use the following script.
#echo off & setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
set a=1
for /f "delims=" %%i in ('dir /b *.jpg') do (
ren "%%i" "!a!.jpg"
set /a a+=1
)
[Update] Here're explanations for the lines mentioned in Jack's comment.
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
In general, we want the variable a to be delayed expansion when it's executed but not the line is read. Without it, the variable a cannot get its increased value but always 1.
For the detail of EnableDelayedExpansion, please refer to the answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/18464353/2749114.
for /f "delims=" %%i in ('dir /b *.jpg')
Here dir with /b option, lists only file names of all jpg files.
The for loop traverses and renames all jpg files.
For the delims option, since the default delimiter character is a space, without the option delims=, it fails with the image files with spaces in the file names. I.E. for an image file named "img with spaces.jpg", without the option, the value of %%i is "img" but not the whole name "img with spaces.jpg", which is incorrect.
For for loop, please refer to the page http://ss64.com/nt/for_f.html.
if not "%%~ni"=="%~n0"
I have change it to if not "%%~nxi"=="%~nx0" to be more accurate. And the codes attached have been updated.
It's actually used to avoid to rename the bat file itself. If we limit the renaming only upon "jpg" files, then the line is not needed.
%%~nxi is the file name with extension for each file traversed. And %~nx0 is the running bat file with extension. For details, please refer to the page DOS BAT file equivalent to Unix basename command?.
There is no need for a batch script. A simple one liner from the command line can do the job :-)
I use DIR /B to generate the list of files, piped to FINDSTR to number the files, all enclosed withn FOR /F to parse the result and perform the rename.
for /f "delims=: tokens=1*" %A in ('dir /b *.jpg^|findstr /n "^"') do #ren "%B" "%A%~xB"
Double the percents if you want to put the command in a batch script.
Try this, you have pair of namevalues in a text file then loop values and do the magic. Namevalues are separated by empty spaces. This allows you to map old->new filenames accordingly. Or you keep idx+1 counter and use it for new filenames.
keyvalue.bat
#echo off
set idx=0
for /F "tokens=1,2" %%A in (keyvalue.txt) do call :PROCESS "%%A" "%%B"
GOTO :END
:PROCESS
set var1=%~1
set var2=%~2
set /A idx=%idx%+1
echo %var1% goes to %var2% (%idx%)
GOTO :EOF
:END
pause
keyvalue.txt
file888.dat newfile1.dat
file333.dat newfile2.dat
file9.dat newfile3.dat
file01.dat newfile4.dat
I need a batch file to create a process for a list of files in a directory.
The filename structure is, for example: 00000_AAA_132144_2012021.txt
I need the batch to:
1 - Create a folder name based on the numbers after the second underscore, as this is the only constant in the naming.
2 - Move the file into the new folder.
In the example of the above the batch would create a folder called 132144 and then move the file 00000_AAA_132144_2012021.txt into the folder
For a similar requirement I used the script Endoro created for me (below). Is it possible to modify this to meet my requirement?
#echo off &setlocal
for /f "delims=" %%i in ('dir /b /a-d *.PDF') do (
set "filename1=%%~i"
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
set "folder1=!filename1:~11,6!"
mkdir "!folder1!" 2>nul
move "!filename1!" "!folder1!"
endlocal
)
If you know that the filenames will be the same length, you can do the following to get the numbers after the second underscore -
set filename=00000_AAA_132144_2012021.txt
set dirname=%filename:~10,6%
If the spacing may vary - you can do the following -
for /f "delims=_ tokens=3" %%a in ('echo %filename%') do set dirname=%%a
And yes, the script written for you seems to do essentially the same thing as what you're asking - I've edited it to do what you've asked -
#echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
for /f %%i in ('dir /b /a-d *.txt') do (
set "filename=%%~i"
for /f "delims=_ tokens=3" %%a in ('echo !filename!') do set folder=%%a
mkdir "!folder!" 2>nul
move "!filename!" "!folder!"
)
This will move all *.txt documents to a folder created based on the third section of the text files name. Note that this will cause problems if you have .txt documents in the directory that do not follow the same naming standard.
#ECHO OFF
SETLOCAL
SET "sourcedir=c:\sourcedir"
SET "destdir=c:\destdir"
FOR /f "delims=" %%a IN ('dir /b /a-d "%sourcedir%\*_*_*_*.txt" ') DO (
FOR /f "tokens=3delims=_" %%m IN ("%%a") DO (
ECHO MD "%destdir%\%%m"
ECHO MOVE "%sourcedir%\%%a" "%destdir%\%%m\"
)
)
GOTO :EOF
Endoro's routine selects .pdf files, you've specified .txt
Find filenames matching the mask, find the third _-separated token in the name, make that directory and then move the file.
The required commands are merely ECHOed for testing purposes. After you've verified that the commands are correct, change ECHO MD to MD to actually create the directories and change ECHO MOVE to MOVE to actually move the files.
Append 2>nul to suppress error messages (eg. when the directory already exists)
Append >nul to suppress report messages (eg. 1 file moved)