I'm trying to use ROBOCOPY to move all files, folders, and subdirectories from one location to another. There are some files that SHOULD NOT be moved. I want to store a list of these files that are NOT to be moved in a text file.
What syntax would the robocopy be for
1. The robocopy command?
2. The syntax of the files for exclusion. As in does the path need to be absolute?
I have looked around but all the posts seem to tip toe around the idea
ROBOCOPY ^
"C:\SOURCE" ^
"C:\TARGET" ^
/E
ExclusionList.txt
-file1.txt
-file2.txt
If i just need /XF pointing to the exclusion file?
or does /XF point at each exlcuded file?
or do I have to do this with the :
/JOB:jobname : Take parameters from the named JOB file.
but how do I use /JOB.... would it be a text file with the extension .JOB... and if so how can I use variables from there.
Thanks,
If you don't have very many files for exclusion, then you may be able to generate the list as a variable to include in the /XF option.
#Echo Off
SetLocal EnableDelayedExpansion
Set "exList=C:\Users\The_BMan\Desktop\ExclusionList.txt"
Set "xFiles="
For /F UseBackQDelims^=^ EOL^= %%A In ("%exList%"
) Do If Not Defined xFiles (Set xFiles="%%~A") Else Set xFiles=!xFiles! "%%~A"
Echo( /XF %xFiles%
Timeout -1
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what im looking for is a .bat file code to zip files individually in all subfolders in the current folder and then delete the of files after, to exclude already zipped/compressed files, what i dont want is folders to be zipped and i want the files to keep there name when zipped
i have a bunch of folders/files and the only code i found
#ECHO OFF
FOR %%i IN (*.*) DO (
ECHO "%%i" | FIND /I "batch zip files.bat" 1>NUL) || (
"c:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" a -tzip "%%~ni.zip" "%%i"
if %ERRORLEVEL% == 0 del "%%i"
)
)
zips all files in the current directory and doesnt touch subfolders
i'd appreciate it if anyone can do this for me as i can save a ton of space with all files zipped
The first issue you have with your provided code is that your For loop is only parsing files in the current directory, there is no recursion into subdirectories. To parse files within the subdirectories, I'd advise that you use a For /F loop, with the Dir command using its /B and /S options. I would also advise that you include the attribute option, /A, which will include every item, then omit those which you're not interested in. For instance, it's unlikely that you want to zip the directories, hidden files, reparse points, or system files. You can do that by excluding those attributes, /A:-D-H-L-S. To learn more about the For command, and the Dir command, open a Command Prompt window, type for /?, and press the ENTER key. You can then do the same for the Dir command, i.e for /?. As you have not defined a working directory at the start of your script, it will run against every file and directory in whatever is current at the time you run it. Because your code has a line excluding a file named batch zip files.bat, I'm going to assume that is the name of your running script, and that your intention is to therefore run the script against everything in the tree rooted from the same location as the batch file itself. To ensure that is always the case, for safety, I've defined that directory as the current directory from the outset, using the CD command, CD /D "%~dp0". %0 is a special batch file argument reference to itself, to learn more about this please take a look at the output from both call /?. You can also learn about the CD command entering cd /?, in a Command Prompt window too. To also omit your batch file, as you don't want it to be zipped and deleted, I've piped the results from the Dir command through FindStr, printing only items which do not exactly match the case insensitive literal string %~f0 (expanding to the full path of the batch file itself). Additionally, I've piped those results through another findstr.exe command to omit any files already carrying a .zip extension, as there's no point in zipping files which already zip files. (Please note however, that for more robust code, you should really check that those are zip archives and not just files carrying a misleading extension). The results from those commands are then passed one by one to the Do portion which includes your 7z.exe command. I've assumed at this stage, that your intention was to save the zipped archives to the same location as the originating files. To do that I've used variable expansion on %%G to stipulate its directory, path, and name, %%~dpnG, (see the usage information under for /? to recap). Upon successful completion of the archiving process, the original file will be deleted, to do that I appended the -sdel option to your original command string. Please be aware that you may want to include additional options, should you wish to update existing zip files etc. (use "%ProgramFiles%\7-Zip\7z.exe" -? in a Command Prompt window to see them). As I've not mentioned it previously, at the beginning of the script, I made sure that extensions were enabled. Whilst it is the default option, it's safer to be sure, as variable expansion and the commands CD, and For can be affected, if they're not.
Here's the code as explained above:
#Echo Off
SetLocal EnableExtensions
CD /D "%~dp0"
For /F "EOL=? Delims=" %%G In ('Dir "*" /A:-D-H-L-S /B /S 2^> NUL ^|
%SystemRoot%\System32\findstr.exe /I /L /V /X "%~f0" ^|
%SystemRoot%\System32\findstr.exe /E /I /L /V ".zip"'
) Do "%ProgramFiles%\7-Zip\7z.exe" a -tzip "%%~dpnG.zip" "%%G" -sdel
Looking at your question, which has changed from what you'd asked initially, you appear to not be interested in the files of the batch file directory any more, "zip files individually in all subfolders in the current folder". For that reason, I've provided the following alternative, methodology.
The difference is that I first of all use a For loop to include only directories in the current working location, /A:D-H-L-S, before running the same method used in my previous example, but with one difference. As we're now no longer zipping files in the current working directory, we can remove the findstr.exe command filtering out the running batch file:
#Echo Off
SetLocal EnableExtensions
CD /D "%~dp0"
For /F "EOL=? Delims=" %%G In ('Dir "*" /A:D-H-L-S /B 2^> NUL'
) Do For /F "EOL=? Delims=" %%H In ('Dir "%%G" /A:-D-H-L-S /B /S 2^> NUL ^|
%SystemRoot%\System32\findstr.exe /E /I /L /V ".zip"'
) Do "%ProgramFiles%\7-Zip\7z.exe" a -tzip "%%~dpnH.zip" "%%H" -sdel
Please be aware, that my answers above are to essentially correct your code attempt, and not a personal recommendation for speed, or in performing the task laid out in your question. Additionally, I have no idea what will happen if any of those files are in use/locked, and have made no attempt at checking for such scenarios.
when it comes to creating a batch-file I would sadly call myself a newbie and therefore it's kind of difficult for me to achieve what I want on my own:
so here is how my codes look:
#ECHO OFF
for /r "C:\source" %%f in (*) do copy /y "%%f" C:\ReadyToExport
del C:\ReadyToExport\*.pdf*
for /f "delims=" %%i in ('xcopy "C:\ReadyToExport" C:\import /EXCLUDE:LogFile.log /S /E /D') do (
echo %%i >> C:\LogFile.log)
PAUSE
and here is what the code exactly does
1- for /r "C:\source" %%f in (*) do copy /y "%%f" C:\ReadyToExport
this line copies all files from source to another target folder the good thing is that this command copies all the files inside other subfolders from source and paste them into the folder C:\ReadyToExport without any subfolders.
2- del C:\ReadyToExport\*.pdf*
this command filters all the .pdf files because they are unnecessary
3-
for /f "delims=" %%i in ('xcopy "C:\ReadyToExport" C:\import /EXCLUDE:LogFile.log /S /E /D') do (
echo %%i >> C:\LogFile.log)
this command basically copies all files from "C:\ReadyToExport" into C:\import and writes the name of the recorded file in LogFile.log then the copied files will be excluded when the script runs again because I don't want to copy the files again if I already copied them before
and here is what I want to achieve:
I want to copy only modified files from the folder "C:\ReadyToExport" to the target C:\import but keep in mind that
the files in the target folder "C:\import" will be deleted but since the names of the files that have already been copied are registered in LogFile.log the files will be excluded and not copied again.
in another word: files in target file do not exist anymore but their names are written in LogFile
so is there any way to copy only modified ones? even though they don't exist in the target folder anymore? but their names are in LogFile.txt? can the script somehow write the last modified date in LogFile.txt near the file name? and then compare the date from the source? so it copies only files that have been changed and ignore all files that didn't?
p.s: using Xcopy, robocopy, etc is not a problem
any answer will be appreciated.
thnx
your method does, in fact, works so thank you so much not the way the I want with exclude:logfile.log
but this definitely worked:
robocopy C:\ReadyToExport\ C:\import /M /E
since it copies only the files that hast the attribute archivable checked in the settings.
I wish to copy a file with extension .dyn which is located in each subfolder of main folder(T15_finished). I wish to copy it into respective subfolder at other location(T15). I have created that location using xcopy command. Here, .dyn file is being copied successfully in respective subfolder in T15 folder(see below code). Now, I have a file which has extension as .dynain which is located in the same subfolder as .dyn. And .dynain file is also getting copied which i don't want.
Please see following code which i have created. Can anyone tell me whats wrong ?
#echo off
xcopy D:\Master\SPRINGBACK\CPW\T15_finished D:\Master\SPRINGBACK\FRESH_SPRINGBACK\CPW\T15 /t
xcopy /e D:\Master\SPRINGBACK\CPW\T15_finished\*.dyn D:\Master\SPRINGBACK\FRESH_SPRINGBACK\CPW\T15
pause
Short file names. If you do a dir /x in the folder containing the .dynain file, you will see the 8.3 filename generated for the file, and it will have .dyn extension.
If you know the extensions of the conflicting files, you can use robocopy with /xf switch to indicate the files (*.dynain) to exclude, or you can generate a exclude file to use with xcopy /exclude:file (see xcopy /? for a explanation)
Or, you can generate the list of files to exclude
(for /f "tokens=" %%a in (
'dir /s /b "D:\Master\SPRINGBACK\CPW\T15_finished\*.dyn" ^| findstr /v /i /e /l ".dyn"'
) do #echo(%%~nxa)>excludedFiles.txt
xcopy /exclude:excludedFiles.txt /e D:\Master\SPRINGBACK\CPW\T15_finished\*.dyn D:\Master\SPRINGBACK\FRESH_SPRINGBACK\CPW\T15
Or (as posted by foxidrive), copy all and then delete the non needed files.
The short filename is being matched as well as the long filename. That is the reason.
A solution is to use another command to delete the files:
del /s "D:\Master\SPRINGBACK\FRESH_SPRINGBACK\CPW\T15\*.dynain"
I am trying to find a way to create a Windows batch script that will look at a target folder full of .pdf files and move (or copy) them to another directory with existing subfolders based on the filename.
The files and folders are names of actual people. I want to be able to get that person's pdf into their existing folder using a script.
Say I have 2 files in my folder; smithJohn015.pdf and thomasBill030.pdf.
I would like to be able to put smithJohn015.pdf into folder SmithJohn and thomasBill030.pdf into folder ThomasBill.
I don't want the script to create new folders or overwrite existing files if there's a duplicate filename.
I'm not necessarily looking for anyone to write a script for me, but if anyone can just get me started in the right direction it would be appreciated.
Try modifying this answer for your evil purposes.
#echo off
setlocal
pushd "c:\path\to\PDFs"
for /d %%I in (c:\Path\To\People\*) do (
for %%F in (*) do (
for /f %%A in ('echo %%~nF ^| find /i "%%~nI"') do (
set /p a="Moving %%F to %%I... "<NUL
move "%%F" "%%I" >NUL
echo Done.
)
)
)
popd
You'll need to add a check for if not exist pdffile before the move, but there's a starting direction for you anyway.
The following assumes the target subfolders' location contains only the subfolders where the PDFs may go and that every PDF that you want to move has a name formatted as the corresponding subfolder's name followed by exactly three characters (same as in your examples):
#ECHO OFF
FOR /D %%D IN ("D:\path\to\subfolders\*") DO (
MOVE "D:\path\to\PDFs\%%~nD???.pdf" "%%D"
)
Or as a one-liner to execute directly at the command prompt:
FOR /D %D IN ("D:\path\to\subfolders\*") DO (MOVE "D:\path\to\PDFs\%~nD???.pdf" "%D")
folderlist.txt contains all names of folders in which you want to copy respective PDFs.
xcopy is copy command. format xcopy "source" "destination" /parameters.
pause is just to keep command window on
for /F "tokens=*" %%A in (folderlist.txt) do (
xcopy "E:\path\to\source folder\<prefix>%%A<suffix>.pdf" "E:\path\to\destination folder\<prefix>%%A<suffix>\" /s)
pause
You can use wildcards in source & destination paths.
I am trying to add the dates to copied files from one directory to another directory. This is how it should look like
Original file name: XEsalary.csv
Result file name: XEsalary-2013-02-15.csv
Here is my code:
set REMOTE=U:\
set LOG=C:\Integration\FE\log_test
set PVM=%DATE:~9,4%-%DATE:~6,2%-%DATE:~3,2%
set YY=%DATE:~9,4%
set LOCAL=C:\FTP\VC\test
cd %LOCAL%
xcopy /y /f /v "%LOCAL%\*.csv" "%REMOTE%\" >>%LOG%\%PVM%.log
xcopy /y /f /v "%LOCAL%\*.csv" "%LOCAL%\archive\*.csv"
:: assist with turning this into a for loop
ren %LOCAL%\archive\*.csv %LOCAL%\archive\*%PVM%.csv
echo. >>%LOG%\%PVM%.log
copying works just file. It is the renaming part which is not working. Any help please?
Thx in advance :-)
Using wildcards with RENAME is tricky. There is no good official documentation, but I have experimented and published rules as to how it works: See How does the Windows RENAME command interpret wildcards?
You can accomplish your rename with the following command, as long as none of your file names include dots (the last extension dot is OK).
ren "%LOCAL%\archive\*.csv" ????????????????????-%PVM%*
The number of ? must be greater than or equal to the longest name in the folder.
The result will be incorrect if a file name contains a dot. For example, part1.part2.csv would become part1-2013-02-15.part2.csv.
Another option is to use a FOR loop. You can safely append the date to any file using this technique.
for %%F in ("%LOCAL%\archive\*.csv") do ren "%%F" "%%~nF-%PVM%%%~xF"
BUT, both solutions have a problem if you rerun the process on a later date. New files will be added to the archive, but both new and old archive files will be renamed to the current date. That won't work.
Better to copy and rename the file in one step using a FOR loop as suggested in rojo's answer.
Or better yet, create a new archive folder with the date in the folder name, and then copy the files to the dated archive folder without renaming :-)
set REMOTE=U:\
set LOG=C:\Integration\FE\log_test
set PVM=%DATE:~9,4%-%DATE:~6,2%-%DATE:~3,2%
set YY=%DATE:~9,4%
set LOCAL=C:\FTP\VC\test
cd %LOCAL%
xcopy /y /f /v "%LOCAL%\*.csv" "%REMOTE%\" >>%LOG%\%PVM%.log
md "%LOCAL%\archive\%PMV%
xcopy /y /f /v "%LOCAL%\*.csv" "%LOCAL%\archive\%PVM%"
You might want to include the time in the folder name if the process could be run multiple times in the same day.
Windows doesn't let you rename with a wildcard. You have to name each file in a for loop. Might as well do the renaming as you're copying. Does this do what you intended?
#echo off
setlocal
set REMOTE=U:\
set LOG=C:\Integration\FE\log_test
set PVM=%DATE:~9,4%-%DATE:~6,2%-%DATE:~3,2%
set YY=%DATE:~9,4%
set LOCAL=C:\FTP\VC\test
xcopy /y /f /v "%LOCAL%\*.csv" "%REMOTE%\" >>%LOG%\%PVM%.log
pushd "%LOCAL%"
for %%I in (*.csv) do (
rem Uncomment the following line to log the copy to archive.
rem echo copy "%%I" -^> "%LOCAL%\archive\%%~nI-%PVM%.csv" >>%LOG%\%PVM%.log
copy "%%I" "%LOCAL%\archive\%%~nI-%PVM%.csv">NUL
)
echo. >>%LOG%\%PVM%.log
popd