so i'm trying to take one file at a time out of a directory that contains 2000 files and going up and move it to a different directory to be worked on by the rest of my script. the script is below. Right now i know the gswin64 line works when it is alone and i specify it a filename but not i'm sure with the variable yet. But when i run this it will copy all the files in directory input to directory working before it runs the rest of the script. How do i make it do one at a time then process the script before copying the rest of the files?
for /F "delims=" %%I in ('dir "H:\documents\gs\input\*.*" /A-d /B /O:-D') do (move "H:\documents\gs\input\%%I" "H:\documents\gs\working"&goto filemoved)
:filemoved
Your original code would attempt to execute move "H:\documents\gs\input\*.*" "H:\documents\gs\working" which is why all of th files were moved. What you need to do is execute a directory list command with the switch parameters and supply that to the for /f. This form of dir will show names only. so you need to include the source directory name in the move command. You would also need to have the "delims=" option to ensure that filenames containing separators are processed correctly, and the /a-d directory switch to ensure that directory names are not included. Since you are sorting in reverse-date order, the newest file will be selected first. After the first file is moved, you need to abort the for loop otherwise it will continue processing the entire list, transferring every file. The easy way here is to simply goto a label on the next line.
You've also used a *.* filemask, which will process all files, regardless of extension. Since you appear to want to process only .pdf files, you should probably change that filemask to suit.
for /F "delims=" %%x in ('dir H:\documents\gs\working\*.pdf /b') do set "FileName=%%x"
Again, you need to execute a dir command if you are using a for /f. There's no apparent reason why you wouldn't use the far simpler
for %%x in (H:\documents\gs\working\*.pdf) do set "FileName=%%x"
In either case, you probably want only the name part of the file, so FileName should be set to %%~nx, not %%x.
"C:\program files\gs\gs9.20\bin\gswin64" -o H:\documents\gs\output\"%FileName%" -sDevice=pdfwrite -dFitPage -dFIXEDMEDIA H:\documents\gs\working\"%FileName%"
Unbalanced quotes - the full pathname to the executable needs to be quoted since it contains a separator. Stray spaces after \ will probably need to be removed.
It would be better imho to quote the entire filename, including drive and path rather than filename only.
del /q H:\documents\gs\working\*.*
rm is not a batch command. Note that this command will delete ALL files in H:\documents\gs\working - not just the .pdf files that you appear to be processing.
goto start
The space is required. gotostart is not an inbuilt command.
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I have the following code to copy files from a list. When the path of the files which the folder name has no space, it works perfectly. But the folder names could have space sometimes, how can I improve the code to handle the folder name with space
FOR /F %%a in (find_file_list.txt) DO COPY "%%a" "C:\test\%%~nxa"
Basically, in this find_file_list.txt, there list all files with path
c:\abc\def\12345.txt
c:\abc\def\12346.txt
c:\abc\def\12347.txt
the above code copy all these three files into folder of test and works fine.
Now when find_file_list.txt change, actually the real folder name has space in it, like
c:\ab c\de f\12345.txt
c:\ab c\de f\12346.txt
c:\ab c\de f\12347.txt
the above code not working anymore...
any thoughts?
You forgot to select the delims you want to split on:
FOR /F "delims=" %%a in (find_file_list.txt) DO COPY "%%a" "C:\test\%%~nxa"
Default delimeters are whitespace, if your file contains it, it will split on the whitepace.
Simply add "delims=" to change it to take the full string.
To output each non empty line in the file, you should ensure that you stipulate either all tokens or no delimiters, (you may also need, depending upon your task, to prevent the exclusion of lines beginning with a specific character, the default For behavior is to ignore all lines which begin with a semicolon, ;).My preference in this instance is to stipulate all tokens; this, unlike stipulating nodelimiters, will remove all leading whitespace from every line, (this would prevent files carrying accidental leading spaces from being picked up).
You cannot copy a file which does not exist, you could supress any error when trying to do so by using 2>Nul, but I would consider it better practice to see if the file exists first.
When you copy a file you need provide only the destination, (you only need to provide the file name if you're changing it).
Instead of using the Copy command you could instead use the XCopy command, this has the benefit of creating the destination directory, (subject to permissions), if it doesn't already exist.
Here therefore is a batch file example:
#For /F UseBackTokens^=*EOL^= %%A In ("find_file_list.txt") Do #If Exist "%%A" XCopy "%%A" "C:\test\">Nul
…and a very slightly modified version to be run from the Command Prompt:
For /F UseBackTokens^=*EOL^= %A In ("find_file_list.txt") Do #If Exist "%A" XCopy "%A" "C:\test\">Nul
I'm working in a windows 7 machine and I'm trying to take all of the files matching the names in a list of file paths (I have the list saved as a csv, rda, and can make a txt file if needed). Ie: the list looks like:
Y:/iglgrelkgjkrle/originals/jsfhdjk.xls
Y:/iglgrelkgjkrddsle/ffhej/originals/jsfhdjk.xlsx
Y:/kssrldsse/ffhej/originals/jsfhdjk.xlt
Y:/blahblah/blah/blahhh/blahhhhhh/originals/blahahaha.pdf
...
...
And basically I want all of these files in this list copied to a new folder in a different location. Thanks!
Almost any problem can be solved with a FOR statement in windows command processor. Using for /f we can search a list in a text document and for each item (This case; location) specified, can run a command to copy it to a new location.
For copying the file, xcopy will be very handy as it has many copy option switches we can use such as /i /z /y.
/I - If in doubt always assume the destination is a folder
/Z - Copy files in restartable mode. If the copy is interrupted part way through,
it will restart if possible.
/Y - Suppress prompt to confirm overwriting a file. (Use /-Y for reverse)
In the following commands bellow, C:\list.txt is used as an example. This is where you specify the location of your list file. This can support a wide range of file formats including html. It does not hurt to try your extensions.
For the place to output the copied files - C:\CopyFolder is an example of the location of the folder you wish to send them too. You can also send them to a local server via \\server\folder\.
From command Line:
for /f "delims=" %i in (C:\list.txt) do (xcopy "%i" "C:\CopyFolder" /i /z /y)
From batch file:
for /f "delims=" %%i in (C:\list.txt) do (xcopy "%%i" "C:\CopyFolder" /i /z /y)
If this has solved your issue, please don't forget to mark this response as solved. I will be happy to further explain any questions!
I want to create a script which should copy files from one folder to another.
Since a file can be of a large size, of up to 1000 MB, it may take few seconds
or a minute to completely copy it. While this is being happened, I want the filename in a destination folder to be prefixed with an underscore(_).
Once the file is completely copied over to a destination folder, then the _ should be removed from the filename. The purpose of doing this is to make sure that another process should not pick up the incomplete file from the destination folder.
How can we do this using a batch script? Currently my batch file is copying and moving the file to another folder but I don't know how can i prefix underscore and then remove again from the filename after the file is completely moved.
Here is my 2 line code which is copying and moving the file.
copy %1\Customer_*.xml C:\Users\ard\Documents\Folder1
move %1\Customer_*.xml %1\Archive
If this can't be done using batch script, then VB script should also work
What you want, in words:
For each affected file in C:\source:
Copy file x to C:\destination\_x
Rename file C:\destination\_x to C:\destination\x
and in Windows batch code, with a few extras:
#echo off
setlocal
set "SOURCE=%1"
set "DESTINATION=C:\Users\ard\Documents\Folder1"
for /f "usebackq delims=" %%x in (`dir /b "%SOURCE%\Customer_*.xml"`) do (
if exist "%DESTINATION%\%%x" (
echo %%x - already exists at destination
) else (
echo %%x
copy "%SOURCE%\%%x" "%DESTINATION%\_%%x" > NUL && rename "%DESTINATION%\_%%x" "%%x"
)
)
Notes:
the for loop can iterate a command's output line-wise
in our case, that command is dir /b "%SOURCE%\*.xml", i.e. the "bare" list of matching files in the source folder
usebackq means the command is delimited by backticks, which allows using double quotes inside the command itself
delims= sets the field delimiters to "none", otherwise for would split each filename into tokens if it contained spaces
> NUL suppresses the "1 file(s) copied." success messages from copy
&& means that rename is only executed if copy was successful
Removing a prefix is not trivial, but removing a suffix (new extension) is simple. So I would append a new extension like .inProgress. You can then COPY and RENAME a collection of files with two simple commands using wildcards.
But the MOVE command does not allow renaming multiple files, so a FOR loop would be required. I'll show the code, but I don't think it is really necessary in the OP's scenario. It looks to me like the source and destination folders are on the same drive, so the move should be virtually instantaneous, and there should be no need to use a temporary intermediate name.
copy "%1\Customer_*.xml" "C:\Users\ard\Documents\Folder1\*.*.inProgress"
ren "C:\Users\ard\Documents\Folder1\*.inProgress" *.
for %%F in ("%1\Customer_*.xml") do (
move "%%F" "%1\Archive\%%~nxF.inProgress"
ren "%1\Archive\%%~nxF.inProgress" *.
)
See How does the Windows RENAME command interpret wildcards? for information on why the rename works.
Note that all the copied files will show up as ".inProgress" until the entire COPY operation has completed. If you want each file to be available as soon as possible, then a FOR loop is needed for the COPY as well:
for %%F in ("%1\Customer_*.xml") do (
copy "%%F" "C:\Users\ard\Documents\Folder1\%%~nxF.inProgress"
ren "C:\Users\ard\Documents\Folder1\%%~nxF.inProgress" *.
)
My example copies from src to dest with a new name, then restores back the old name:
bn is the basename of the source file.
for %%a in (src\*.xml) do (
set bn=%%~nxa
copy %%a dest\!bn!_
rename dest\!bn!_ !bn!
)
I have a small issue. I'm not super fluent in batch scripting but i'm trying to get better.
I'm trying to get a script working at my current job that we can use to move all files in the last sub-directory of a parent up one directory.
The need is for moving image sequences delivered with a superfluous sub-directory up one sub-directory for effects workflow
essentially i'm being delivered 100s of image sequences as:
Episode/Footage/shot/resolution/shot.0000001.dpx
I would love a batch script i could move into the "Footage" folder that would parse the shot directories below them and move the image sequences out of the resolution folder and place them directly into the shot folder so the structure would look more like this:
Episode/Footage/shot/shot.0000001.dpx
This batch would need to be reused over many instances and just be robust enough to be reusable regardless of what the extensions on the image sequences are or the naming structure of the subfolders are.
for /f "delims==" %%i in ('dir /a:d /b') do for /f "delims==" %%f in ('dir "%%i" /a:d /b') do (move "%%i\%%f\*" "%%i"&&rd "%%i\%%f" /s /q)
The * can be replaced with * . * (no spaces) to only grab files.
Use % instead of %% for use on the command line.
This will grab from any dir under Footage. Delete the first for loop and replace all occuences of %%i with shot to only grab from there.
#!/bin/bash
mv Episode/Footage/Shot/*/* Episode/Footage/Shot
Or for more Fanciness:
#!/bin/bash
echo "Write the file path:"
read file_path
mv $file_path/*/* $file_path/
This will ask you what the path is (This is Episodes/Footage/shot in your example) then find all the files in that path and all the files inside them and put them all in the path.
You could also modify this if instead of putting the files in the path you want them in a different place you could add:
echo "Write the destination file path:"
read file_path2
in between: read file_path and mv ...
and change:
mv $file_path/*/* $file_path
to:
mv $file_path/*/* $file_path2
There is really no need to go through so much trouble.
With the exceptions of the PUSHD and POPD commands, the whole thing can be placed on one line like nephi12 did.
I'm puting everything on separate lines for clairity's sake, but will give two examples of it on one line later.
REM Set working directory
PUSHD C:\Episode\Footage\
REM Find all the sub directories of the working
REM directory, and if any exist execute the loop below:
For /d %%d in ( *.* ) do (
REM Move all files inside the subdirectory up one level.
move /s %%d\*.* %%d\..\.
REM Delete the directories if they are empty.
RD /y %%d
)
REM Return to your original working directory.
POPD
The above code pushes the current directory name into a stack, and changes dirs to Footage.
Then the For /d command grabs all (if any) of the sub directories of Footage, and feeds them one at a time first into the MOVE command, then into the Remove Directory command.
The MOVE /s command moves all files in directory %%d (including any in sub folders) up one level.
Next the RD /y command automatically deletes the now empty directories, or causes a soft error if they are not empty.
The final command returns the working directory to it's original location, POPing the path off the stack.
On one line, without the PUSHD and POPD commands and the directory cleanup, it looks like this:
Single Line Solution:
For /d %%d in ( *.* ) do move /s %%d\*.* %%d\..\.
Single Line Solution with Cleanup:
To include the cleanup just 'add' the and command && after the move command and before the RD, like so:
For /d %%d in ( *.* ) do ( move /s %%d\*.* %%d\..\. & RD /y %%d )
Why I did what I did.
The fastest way to move a whole bunch of files, is not to tell move how and where to move each file, but to use wild cards that will allow Move to figure out by it'self where to put them. So rather than tell it to move one file at a time, I give it wild cards, which allowsMOVE to work at it's fastest. So I only feed it the individual source and destination directories, and say "copy ALL files from here to there".
A set of brackets (...) can hold, what the interpreter considers a single line of code. Which causes a whole new set of problems, but it allows a special variable like %%d to exist on (what to us appears to be) multiple lines of code. I did that at the top. Later, I used another set of brackets to show the command interpreter what is part of a single line is inside a FOR statement, and what is not.
I also used a bit of old DOS shorthand to specify a parent directory, .. which allows me to not know the exact path of something, and still manipulate things in it's parent . As an example,C:\WINDOWS\.. is C:\, and C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\.. is C:\WINDOWS\ .
You might notice that I also used the file specification . . That is probably unnecessary, but I've ran into enough trouble without it that I use it. It just makes clear to MOVE that we are moving these files to a folder, not a file. And, oh yes, MOVE will gladly move hundreds of your files on top of each other, ruining them all but the last one. You can imagine how I came to embrace the . .
The & allows you to string multiple commands, or programs, onto a single line of code, and allows me to tack the RD to the end of the line, and still have access to the special variables that the FOR command created.
So, now if you were paying attention, you'd have realized that my second sentence was a fib. There is nothing stopping you from tacking a PUSHD & and a & POPD onto the beginning and end of that line.
I'm trying to pass files one by one(I have to dot that since executable only accepts one file at a time). So, in my batch I have follwoing:
FOR /F %file IN ('dir /b /s *.css') DO CALL myExecutable.exe %file
I should see out files in same directory but nothing happens, no errors are displayed either.
Am I missing something here?
You have several mistakes in your example:
FOR parameter name is a single letter only
CALL is used to call another batch file or a subroutine in the existing batch file, not executables
the FOR parameter should be referenced with two %, when in batch file
you need to use a non-space delimiter, if the directory you run this command in or any subdirectory, or if any of the files has a space in the name
With these in mind, here's the right command you should be using:
for /f "usebackq delims=|" %%f in (`dir /b /s *.css`) do myexecutable.exe "%%f"
Here's my answer to a similar SO question, where I give more details on using FOR to process all files in a directory.