I'm writing this batch script but when it gets to looking fore if all files of a file extension exists, it goes and does the else even those the file exists. Thanks for the help in advance!
#echo off
if not exist C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Desktop\workBackup (
::creates new folder 'workBackup'
mkdir C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Desktop\workBackup
)
set TIMESTAMP=%DATE:~4,2%%DATE:~7,2%%DATE:~10,4%
if not exist C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Desktop\workBackup\%TIMESTAMP% (
::creates new folder to put work into
mkdir C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Desktop\workBackup\%TIMESTAMP%
)
if not exist C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Desktop\workBackup\%TIMESTAMP%\logs (
::creates logs folder
mkdir C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Desktop\workBackup\%TIMESTAMP%\logs
)
if exist C:\User\%USERNAME%\Documents\workspace\out\log\*.xlsx (
::moves all xlsx files to workBackup folder
move "C:\User\%USERNAME%\Documents\workspace\out\log\"*.xlsx C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Desktop\workBackup\%TIMESTAMP%\
) else (
::exits if file no files are found
echo "Files not found"
exit /b
)
if exist C:\User\%USERNAME%\Documents\workspace\out\log\*.xlsx (
::moves all log files to workBackup folder
move "C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Documents\workspace\out\log\"*.log C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Desktop\workBackup\%TIMESTAMP%\logs
) else (
::exits if file no files are found
echo "Files not found"
exit /b
)
There are several things to mention
the date format is a per user setting, better get date from wmic
when creating a folder structure the deepest one will imply the other
don't test, make and suppress an eventual error msg.
reduce errorprone redundancy by creating vars
put double quotes around the whole path not only part of it
#echo off
for /f %%A in ('wmic os get LocalDateTime^|findstr ^^[0-9]') do Set _DT=%%A
Set yy=%_DT:~0,4%&Set MM=%_DT:~4,2%&Set dd=%_DT:~6,2%
Set "WBu=C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Desktop\workBackup"
Set "WBuDT=%WBu%\%dd%%MM%%yy%"
:: or reverse day and month %MM%%dd%%yy%
Set "WSpOL=C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Documents\workspace\out\log"
mkdir "%WBuDT%\logs" 2>NUL
::moves all xlsx files to workBackup folder
move "%WSpOL%\*.xlsx" "%WBuDT%\" 2>NUL||(Echo "%WSpOL%\*.xlsx" not found&Exit /b)
::moves all log files to workBackup folder
move "%WSpOL%\*.log" "%WBuDT%\logs\" 2>NUL||(Echo "%WSpOL%\*.log" not found&Exit /b)
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I have a folder full of zip files. Those zip files sometimes contain zip files, that sometimes contain zip files within them, and so on. I am trying to write a batch file that I can paste into the top folder containing all the zips, and when it runs it will unzip all the nested zip files, and within sub-directories, all the way down, and delete the zips once they have been successfully extracted. The full file paths need to be preserved. If there is an error and a file cannot be extracted then it should not be deleted and the file and file path need to be printed to a text file.
So far I have this:
#ECHO ON
SET source=%cd%
FOR /F "TOKENS=*" %%F IN ('DIR /S /B "%source%\*.zip"') DO "C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" x "%%~fF" -o"%%~pF\"
EXIT
Which I can drop into a folder and run, it will unzip the first level of zips but none of the nested zips inside. That's the first hurdle.
The next hurdle would be to delete the successfully extracted zips. And last, not to delete any zips that could not be extracted and print their name and/or path to a text file.
Any suggestions or chunks of code are appreciated. Or if there's a better way to do this entirely.
**** UPDATED ****
Mofi posted an answer that looks like it's working except for one piece:
When a ZIP is extracted, it needs to be extracted to a folder with the same name, so I can still follow the structure.
Starting Example:
[Top Level Folder Holding Zips] (folder)
--ExampleZip.zip
---FileInZip.txt
---FileinZip2.txt
--ExampleZip2.zip
---Folder1 (folder)
----ExampleZip3.zip
-----FileinZip3.txt
-----FileinZip4.txt
---ExampleZip4.zip
----FileinZip5.txt
----FileinZip6.txt
Needs to become this:
[Top Level Folder Holding Zips] (folder)
--ExampleZip (folder)
---FileInZip.txt
---FileinZip2.txt
--ExampleZip2 (folder)
---Folder1 (folder)
----ExampleZip3 (folder)
-----FileinZip3.txt
-----FileinZip4.txt
---ExampleZip4 (folder)
----FileinZip5.txt
----FileinZip6.txt
So the full structure is still visible.
I think the top answer in this question shows what I need to include: Extract zip contents into directory with same name as zip file, retain directory structure
This part:
SET "filename=%~1"
SET dirName=%filename:~0,-4%
7z x -o"%dirName%" "%filename%"
Needs to be smashed in there somewhere. Or it seems like there should be a switch for 7Zip that does it, since you can do this from the context menu with "Extract to *" I thought that's what the "extract with full paths" command does but that must have something to do with the -o switch, specifying output path? How do I specify the output path to be a folder with the same name as the input zip? Or merge the answer from that question I linked with Mofi's answer?
*** UPDATED AGAIN ***
I thought there was an issue with the batch file ignoring ZIP files with underscores in the name, but that was a coincidence and it was actually ignoring ZIP files without the Archive file attribute set.
Mofi suggested another fix for that which worked, but the batch file is not extracting nested zips that needed the Archive file attribute set.
This does kind of work, in that I can manually execute the batch file a few times and it will work it's way through everything in the folder, but the loop calculation does not seem to work, or is calculating/terminating before the batch file sets the Archive attribute for all zip files?
Here is the current version I'm working with:
#echo off
setlocal EnableExtensions DisableDelayedExpansion
set "ErrorOutput="
set "LoopCount=20"
rem The current directory is used on batch file being called without
rem a base folder path or with just one or more double quotes.
set "BaseFolder=%~1"
if defined BaseFolder set "BaseFolder=%BaseFolder:"=%"
if not defined BaseFolder set "BaseFolder=%CD%" & goto VerifyFolderPath
rem Make sure the folder path contains backslashes and not forward slashes
rem and does not contain wildcard characters or redirection operators or a
rem horizontal tab character after removing all double quotes.
set "BaseFolder=%BaseFolder:/=\%"
for /F "delims=*?|<> " %%I in ("%BaseFolder%") do if not "%BaseFolder%" == "%%I" (
echo ERROR: %~nx0 must be called with a valid folder path.
echo "%~1" is not a valid folder path.
set "ErrorOutput=1"
goto EndBatch
)
rem Get full folder path in case of the folder was specified with
rem a relative path. If the folder path references the root of a
rem drive like on using "C:\" or just "\", redefine the folder
rem path with full path for root of the (current) drive.
for %%I in ("%BaseFolder%") do set "BaseFolder=%%~fI"
:VerifyFolderPath
rem The base folder path must end with a backslash for verification.
if not "%BaseFolder:~-1%" == "\" set "BaseFolder=%BaseFolder%\"
rem Verify the existence of the folder. The code above processed also
rem folder paths of folders not existing at all and also invalid folder
rem paths containing for example a colon not (only) after drive letter.
if not exist "%BaseFolder%" (
echo ERROR: Folder "%BaseFolder%" does not exist.
set "ErrorOutput=1"
goto EndBatch
)
rem Make sure to process all ZIP files existing in base folder and all
rem its subfolders by setting archive file attribute on all ZIP files.
%SystemRoot%\System32\attrib.exe +A /S "%BaseFolder%*.zip"
rem Process all *.zip files found in base folder and all its subfolders
rem which have the archive file attribute set. *.zip files with archive
rem file attribute not set are ignored to avoid an endless running loop
rem if a ZIP archive file cannot be extracted successfully with reason(s)
rem output by 7-Zip or if the ZIP file cannot be deleted after successful
rem extraction of the archive. The archive extraction loop runs are limited
rem additionally by a loop counter as defined at top of the batch file for
rem 100% safety on prevention of an endless loop execution.
:ExtractArchives
set "ArchiveProcessed="
for /F "delims=" %%I in ('dir "%BaseFolder%*.zip" /AA-D /B /S 2^>nul') do (
set "ArchiveProcessed=1"
echo Extracting archive: "%%I"
"%ProgramFiles%\7-Zip\7z.exe" x -bd -bso0 -o"%%~dpnI\" -spd -y -- "%%I"
#pause
if errorlevel 255 set "ErrorOutput=1" & goto EndBatch
if errorlevel 1 (
set "ErrorOutput=1"
%SystemRoot%\System32\attrib.exe -A "%%I"
) else (
del /A /F "%%I"
if exist "%%I" (
echo ERROR: Failed to delete: "%%I"
set "ErrorOutput=1"
%SystemRoot%\System32\attrib.exe -A "%%I"
)
)
)
if not defined ArchiveProcessed goto EndBatch
set /A LoopCount-=1
if not LoopCount == 0 goto ExtractArchives
:EndBatch
if defined ErrorOutput echo/& pause
endlocal
echo[
echo[
echo If no errors are displayed above, everything extracted successfully. Remember to delete the batch file once you are done.
#pause
It is rare that there would be maybe 10 or 20 layers of nested zips, so a quick and dirty fix may be just somehow looping the whole batch file 10 or 20 times, unless that is a bad idea or there is a more elegant way to do it.
The task to recursively extract all ZIP archives including nested ZIP archives inside a ZIP archive can be achieved by running the ZIP archive file extraction process in a loop until no ZIP file exists anymore. But there must be at least two use cases taken into account to avoid an endless running archive extraction loop:
The extraction of a ZIP archive file fails for whatever reason. 7-Zip outputs information about the error reason(s). Such a ZIP file should not be processed a second time.
The deletion of a successfully extracted ZIP file fails for whatever reason. The ZIP file should not be processed once again.
The solution is processing only ZIP files with archive file attribute set as done automatically by Windows on creating, renaming or modifying a file and remove the archive file attribute on every ZIP file on which the extraction process or the deletion of the file failed to avoid processing the ZIP file again.
The archive file attribute is set on all *.zip files on directory tree to process before starting the archive files extraction process to make sure that really all existing *.zip files are processed at least once. The archive file attribute is also set on all *.zip files in output directory of a completely successfully processed ZIP archive file to make sure that even *.zip files inside a ZIP file with archive file attribute not set after extraction are processed also on next archive file extraction loop run.
#echo off
setlocal EnableExtensions DisableDelayedExpansion
set "ErrorOutput="
set "LoopCount=20"
rem The current directory is used on batch file being called without
rem a base folder path or with just one or more double quotes.
set "BaseFolder=%~1"
if defined BaseFolder set "BaseFolder=%BaseFolder:"=%"
if not defined BaseFolder set "BaseFolder=%CD%" & goto VerifyFolderPath
rem Make sure the folder path contains backslashes and not forward slashes
rem and does not contain wildcard characters or redirection operators or a
rem horizontal tab character after removing all double quotes.
set "BaseFolder=%BaseFolder:/=\%"
for /F "delims=*?|<> " %%I in ("%BaseFolder%") do if not "%BaseFolder%" == "%%I" (
echo ERROR: %~nx0 must be called with a valid folder path.
echo "%~1" is not a valid folder path.
set "ErrorOutput=1"
goto EndBatch
)
rem Get full folder path in case of the folder was specified with
rem a relative path. If the folder path references the root of a
rem drive like on using "C:\" or just "\", redefine the folder
rem path with full path for root of the (current) drive.
for %%I in ("%BaseFolder%") do set "BaseFolder=%%~fI"
:VerifyFolderPath
rem The base folder path must end with a backslash for verification.
if not "%BaseFolder:~-1%" == "\" set "BaseFolder=%BaseFolder%\"
rem Verify the existence of the folder. The code above processed also
rem folder paths of folders not existing at all and also invalid folder
rem paths containing for example a colon not (only) after drive letter.
if not exist "%BaseFolder%" (
echo ERROR: Folder "%BaseFolder%" does not exist.
set "ErrorOutput=1"
goto EndBatch
)
rem Make sure to process all ZIP files existing in base folder and all
rem its subfolders by setting archive file attribute on all ZIP files.
%SystemRoot%\System32\attrib.exe +A /S "%BaseFolder%*.zip" >nul
rem Process all *.zip files found in base folder and all its subfolders
rem which have the archive file attribute set. *.zip files with archive
rem file attribute not set are ignored to avoid an endless running loop
rem if a ZIP archive file cannot be extracted successfully with reason(s)
rem output by 7-Zip or if the ZIP file cannot be deleted after successful
rem extraction of the archive. The archive extraction loop runs are limited
rem additionally by a loop counter as defined at top of the batch file for
rem 100% safety on prevention of an endless loop execution.
:ExtractArchives
set "ArchiveProcessed="
for /F "delims=" %%I in ('dir "%BaseFolder%*.zip" /AA-D /B /S 2^>nul') do (
set "ArchiveProcessed=1"
echo Extracting archive: "%%I"
"%ProgramFiles%\7-Zip\7z.exe" x -bd -bso0 -o"%%~dpI" -spd -y -- "%%I"
if errorlevel 255 set "ErrorOutput=1" & goto EndBatch
if errorlevel 1 (
set "ErrorOutput=1"
%SystemRoot%\System32\attrib.exe -A "%%I"
) else (
%SystemRoot%\System32\attrib.exe +A /S "%%~dpnI\*.zip" >nul
del /A /F "%%I"
if exist "%%I" (
echo ERROR: Failed to delete: "%%I"
set "ErrorOutput=1"
%SystemRoot%\System32\attrib.exe -A "%%I"
)
)
)
if not defined ArchiveProcessed goto EndBatch
set /A LoopCount-=1
if not LoopCount == 0 goto ExtractArchives
:EndBatch
if defined ErrorOutput echo/& pause
endlocal
Note: There must be one horizontal tab character after "delims=*?|<> and " on line 16 of the batch file code and not a series of space characters as there will be after copying the code from browser window and pasting the code into a text editor window.
The batch file is commented with lines with command REM (remark). These comments should be read for understanding the code and then can be removed for a more efficient execution of the batch file by Windows command processor.
The 7-Zip switches used in code are explained by help of 7-Zip opened by double clicking on file 7-zip.chm or opening Help from within GUI window of started 7-Zip. On help tab Contents expand the list item Command Line Version and click on list item Switches to get displayed the help page Command Line Switches with all switches supported by currently used version of 7-Zip.
The batch file can be executed with a folder path as argument to process all ZIP files in this folder and all its subfolders. So it is possible to add to Send to context menu of Windows File Explorer a shortcut file which runs the batch file with the folder path passed by Windows File Explorer to the batch file as first argument. It would be also possible to registry the batch file as context menu option for Directory in Windows registry to be able to run the batch file easily from within any application supporting the Windows context menu handlers for a directory.
Edit after question edited: The command line running 7-Zip can be modified to:
"%ProgramFiles%\7-Zip\7z.exe" x -bd -bso0 -o"%%~dpnI\" -spe -spd -y -- "%%I"
Each ZIP file is extracted with this command line into a subfolder in folder of the ZIP file with name of the ZIP file because of replacing -o"%%~dpI" by -o"%%~dpnI\". The additional 7-Zip switch -spe avoids duplicating the folder name if the ZIP file contains at top level a folder with same name as the ZIP file. So if Example3.zip contains at top level the folder Example3, the files are extracted to folder Example3 and not to folder Example3\Example3 as it would occur without usage of option -spe.
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.
attrib /?
call /?
dir /?
echo /?
endlocal /?
for /?
goto /?
if /?
rem /?
set /?
setlocal /?
Read the Microsoft documentation 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.
Using Groovy, or Ant
This would be a lot easier using Apache Ant or, better still, the Groovy AntBuilder.
e.g. this Groovy script will unzip all the top leval zip files then delete them:
new AntBuilder().with {
def sourceRoot = '.'
// Unzip all .zip files in / underneath sourceRoot
unzip( dest: 'some-folder' ) {
fileset( dir: sourceRoot ) {
include name: "**/*.zip"
}
}
// Unzip throws an exception on failure.
// Delete all .zip files in / underneath sourceRoot
delete {
fileset( dir: sourceRoot, includes: '**/*.zip' )
}
}
You'll need to keep scanning the destination folder for zips, and repeating the above process, until everythings unzipped. You may also find it useful to use a FileScanner.
AntBuilder throws an exception if anything fails, so you can avoid deleting archives that fail to unzip. AntBuilder will also log it's progress, using the standard Java logging mechanisms. You can tell it the level of detail you want, or supress it completely
The full AntBuilder documentation is here:
http://docs.groovy-lang.org/latest/html/documentation/ant-builder.html
Using a fileScanner
Example from the Groovy AntBuilder documentation:
// let's create a scanner of filesets
def scanner = ant.fileScanner {
fileset(dir:"src/test") {
include(name:"**/My*.groovy")
}
}
// now let's iterate over
def found = false
for (f in scanner) {
println("Found file $f")
found = true
assert f instanceof File
assert f.name.endsWith(".groovy")
}
assert found
Putting it together
It's not a huge leap to combine a filesScanner with an AntBuilder to get the job done. I suspect it will be a lot easier than doing it with a batch script.
Finally managed to write a batch file that can unzip nested zips, keeping the archive file structure intact!
logic is that, run recursively until all the zip files are unzipped. Number of iterations default is 5, and can be passed as cmd arg "extract.bat 3". may be changed to a while loop until hit file not found exception. And most importantly delete the archive file after extraction, so, we don't get into endless loop!
But follow the rules below
it uses 7z, make sure in the cmd window 7z can be run, that is in the path
zip file names cannot have spaces. make sure of that and ext is zip
copy the zip file to a directory where there are no other zip files
And only .zip ext, you may change that to rar or anything in the batch file
Here is the batch file
Rem Nested unzip - #sivakd
echo off
if "%1"=="" (set iter=5) else (set iter=%1)
echo Running %iter% iterations
for /l %%x in (1, 1, %iter%) do (
dir *.zip /s /b > ziplist.txt
for /F %%f in (ziplist.txt) do (
7z x %%f -o%%~dpnf -y & del /f %%f
)
del ziplist.txt
)
I am new to batch. I work with website, I have a folder called web, in this folder, I have many sub directories, such as 'template1', 'template2', etc. In those templates, there is one thing in common, each only contains three same files, 'draw.html', 'draw.js', 'draw.css'. Each time I want to create a new page I need to manually create this pattern. I wonder if I can code a batch file, so I can do this by click on pat.bat, and it generate the folder and three files for me. after thinking, I decide to do this: in web folder, create two files: ['pat.bat', 'pat.txt'] in 'pat.txt', there are three strings seperated by line: [draw.html, draw.js, draw.css], the logic in batch file is pretty simple: it asks the user to input a directory name, then generate
directory_name
|-draw.js
|-draw.html
|-draw.css
here's the batch file I worked out <pat.bat>
#echo off
:dir_loop
echo Create a directory named:
set /p directory=
if "%directory%" equ "" (
echo Please enter a valid directory
goto :dir_loop
)
:pat_loop
if not exist pat.txt (
echo Please create a pat.txt file which
echo contains all your files separated by
echo line with correct extension to
echo generate into the folder.
echo "Have you done it? (y/n)"
set /p good=
if not exist pat.txt (
echo Sorry, no pat.txt detected in current directory
goto :pat_loop
)
)
:final
mkdir %directory%
for /F "delims=," %i in (pat.txt) do (
cd %directory%
cd. > %i
cd..
)
pat.txt
draw.js
draw.css
draw.html
ok, here comes the problem, when I change the 'directory' variable to a default value rather than user input, and run this in the elevated command prompt inside my web directory, it works fine (following code)
#echo off
:dir_loop
echo Create a directory named:
rem !!! change directory from user input to assignment
set directory=template1
if "%directory%" equ "" (
echo Please enter a valid directory
goto :dir_loop
)
:pat_loop
if not exist pat.txt (
echo Please create a pat.txt file which
echo contains all your files separated by
echo line with correct extension to
echo generate into the folder.
echo "Have you done it? (y/n)"
set /p good=
if not exist pat.txt (
echo Sorry, no pat.txt detected in current directory
goto :pat_loop
)
)
:final
mkdir %directory%
for /F "delims=," %i in (pat.txt) do (
cd %directory%
cd. > %i
cd..
)
but, if I set the variable 'directory' to user input rather than string, when I click on the <pat.bat> file, entry my folder name for example, ak, it creates an ak folder in web with nothing in it. (first <pat.bat> code)
I guess it's my for loop's variable assignment issue, I will be so glad if you can help.
PS: you can test the code by simply create a folder on desktop, create two files inside of it pat.txt, pat.bat and paste it in. to test the second bat file, type cmd in the folder, paste in the code (make sure pat.txt is created at first)
#echo off
cd %~dp0
:dir_loop
echo Create a directory named:
set /p directory=
if "%directory%" equ "" (
echo Please enter a valid directory
goto :dir_loop
)
:pat_loop
if not exist pat.txt (
echo Please create a pat.txt file which
echo contains all your files separated by
echo line with correct extension to
echo generate into the folder.
echo "Have you done it? (y/n)"
set /p good=
if not exist pat.txt (
echo Sorry, no pat.txt detected in current directory
goto :pat_loop
)
)
:final
mkdir %directory%
for /F "delims=," %%i in (pat.txt) do (
cd %directory%
cd. > %%i
cd..
)
This code worked for me in a folder in the path C:\Users\Neko\Desktop\Test. There were several issues with your code.
As #Mofi said, in batch files, the command extension of for loop variables get expanded to %%var instead of %var so you have to change your %is to %%i.
This code would automatically execute in the %HOMEPATH% directory (C:\Users\<User>) which would cause errors in finding pat.txt, I changed it so that it executes in the parent directory of pat.bat, %~dp0 (parent directory of batch file). This would look for pat.txt in the same folder as the batch file (which for me was C:\Users\Neko\Desktop\Test) and then makes the folder in that directory. (you can change it by editing the :final label to include a cd <path you want folders in>
Again, like #Mofi said, %%i instead of %i is needed in batch-files. Your error was caused by this since the for loop wouldn't execute.
I ran this file with the circumstances you suggested (you can test the code by simply create a folder on desktop, create two files inside of it pat.txt, pat.bat and paste it in. to test the second bat file, type cmd in the folder, paste in the code (make sure pat.txt is created at first)) and it worked for me, it created draw.js, draw.css, and draw.html in the C:\Users\Neko\Desktop\Test\<%directory%> folder succesfully. (When %directory% is abc it creates draw.js, draw.css, and draw.html in the C:\Users\Neko\Desktop\Test\abc folder)
I am trying to create a batch file that will check a list of computers for a specific directory and if the directory exist pop-up a message on the screen.
If the directory does not exist then copy it to the remote system.
I have not been able to find any good examples.
The batch file I am working on does not function well at all. It does no tell you when the directory exist, it does not write to the text file and when it goes to copy I am getting invalid path.
This is where I am at now. Any help would be appreciated as this is my 1st attempt at writing a batch file
#echo off
for /F %%A in (machines.txt) do (
if exist "\\%%A\C$\temp\test\" (
echo %%A Directory Exits >>exists.txt
) else (
XCOPY "C:\temp\test\" "\\%%a\c$\Temp\test\" /D /E /C /R /I /K /Y /Q
)
Since the code above was not working I decided to start over and make sure the batch file could find the directory called Test.
When I run the batch file it creates the missing.txt file instead of the exists.txt file which would indicate that it found the directory. I am not sure why it is not finding the directory or maybe it is but my code is incorrect?
This is what I ran
#echo off
for /F %%A in (machines.txt) do (
if exist "\\%%A\C:\Windows\Test" (
echo %%A : FOUND >>exists.txt
) else (
echo %%A : MISSING >>missing.txt
)
)
Pause
I have the following batch file that connects to a network drive and retrieves a list of documents contained in the e:\cn_documents.csv file to the e:\data directory and any files it can't find it sticks it in the doesnotexist.csv file.
The problem with the batch job is it took 20 hours to retrieve 200000 documents. I was told that Robocopy would be quicker. Would anyone have a robocopy script that would do the same?
#echo off
net use \\10.10.10.1\ipc$ /d
net use \\10.10.10.1\ipc$ /user:company\joebloggs Password1
SET destfolder=e:\data
SET DoesNotExistList="E:\DoesNotExist_CN.txt"
REM Reset the not exist list so it doesn't pile up from multiple runs.
ECHO The following Contract Note files were not found > %DoesNotExistList%
FOR /F "delims=" %%a IN (e:\cn_documents.csv) DO (
REM Check if the file exists.
IF EXIST "%%a" (
REM It does exist, copy to the destination.
COPY "%%a" "%destfolder%\%%~nxa"
) ELSE (
REM It does not exist, note the file name.
ECHO %%a>>%DoesNotExistList%
)
)
I am trying to create a batch file, or other script, to take the contents of one folder to a folder containing its name in another directory. For example:
ShowName.Episode.Title.mkv should be moved to \movies\showname. if \movies\showname\ doesn't exist, the script would create it.
There are, on average, 10-15 files at a time that would need moved.
Any ideas?
Thanks
You can conditionally create the folder with:
if not exist \movies\showname mkdir \movies\showname
To move a file into it:
move ShowName.Episode.Title.mkv \movies\showname
To get more information about these commands, open a command prompt and type:
help if
and
help move
#ECHO OFF
SETLOCAL
SET "sourcedir=c:\sourcedir"
SET "destdir=c:\destdir"
FOR /f "tokens=1-4delims=." %%a IN (
'dir /b /a-d "%sourcedir%\*.*.*.mkv" '
) DO (
MD "%destdir%\%%a" 2>NUL
MOVE "%sourcedir%\%%a.%%b.%%c.%%d" "%destdir%\%%a\"
)
GOTO :EOF
This should do your moves. You'd have to change the directory names, of course - no idea where your source directory is, but destination becomes \movies in your case.
May be an idea to try ECHO MOVE first, just to make sure that the move is as-required.
The 2>nul on the MD suppresses the error messages saying the directory already exists.
Adding >nul to the end of the MOVE line will suppress the file moved message.