I have a problem when trying to upload multiple files to one WinSCP directory, i can manage to copy just one single file, but the problem is that i need to upload many files that are generated by a software, the names are not fixed ones, so i need to make use of wildcards in roder to copy all of them, i have tried many variants on the code, but it all was unsuccessful, the code i am using is:
open "sftp://myserver:MyPass#sfts.us.myserver.com" -hostkey="hostkey"
put "C:\from*.*" "/Myserverfolder/Subfolder/"
exit
This code does actually copy the first alphabetically named file, but it ignores the rest of the files.
Any help with it would be much appreciated
Try this in script
Lcd C:\from
Cd Myserverfolder/Subfolder
Put *
Try and do all manually first so you can see what's going on.
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I need something that can copy a specified file any and everywhere on my drive (or computer) where that file already exists; i.e. update a file. I tried to search this site, in case I'm not the first, and found this:
CMD command line: copy file to multiple locations at the same time
But not quite the same.
Example:
Say I have a file called CurrentList.txt, and I have copies of it all over my hard drive. But then I change it and I want all the copies to update. So I want to copy the newer one over all the others. It could 'copy if newer', but generally I know it's newer, so it could also just find every instance and copy over it.
I was originally going to use some kind of .bat file that would have to iterate over every folder seeking the file in question, but my batch file programming is limited/rusty. Then I looked to see if xcopy could do it, but I don't think so...
For how I will use it most, I generally know where those files are going to be, so it actually might be as good or better if I could specify it to (using example), "copy CurrentList.txt, overwriting all other copies wherever found in the C:\Lists folder and all subfolders".
I would really like to be able to have it in a context menu, so I could (from a file explorer) right click on a file or selected files and choose the option to distribute it.
Thanks in advance for any ideas.
Use the "replace" command...
replace CurrentList.txt C:\Lists /s
I'm trying to make an batch file that will copy the contents of a .cfg file into another .cfg file. The problem I'm having is that I want the contents of the first file to be placed at specific lines of the destination file, for example, placing the contents between line 300 and 343 and overwriting the original content within those lines.
Any way of doing this?
If there isn't a way to detect specific lines maybe there is a way to detect a specific string, like an ID?
If you are allowed to use 3rd party tools in your environment you can use a regex CLI tool to find and then replace the lines / values you need. The tool can be called using batch scripts.
Example Tools from another question:
https://superuser.com/questions/339118/regex-replace-from-command-line
I have a long list of files that are auto-produced every month. they'll all have the same file name, with a sequential file extension like this:file.001, file.002, file.003
Each file has differing information, despite having the same name. What I need to do is copy them from their home directory and paste them into a new directory with names that reflect their purpose, and as text files, like this: Budget.txt, Expense.txt, Retention.txt
Is it possible to do this with a batch file? I've been unable to find a method that works. Any help would be appreciated.
EDIT: I've tried that solution, and it works as far as it goes. the frustrating thing is that the extensions are not always the same, but always sequentially numbered.
I need to check the files of a versioned system. To do that, I need to write a batcha program so to compare the contents of several folders containing the repositories.
So, my question is: how can I "read" the names of all the subfolders inside a folder, so to use these names later to find subfolders having the same names in a different repositories?
I suppose I may use DIR to print on the screen a list of these names but I don't know how to write it on a text file and then read it. Moreover, I should edit this kind of list, anyway.
Any suggestions or new ideas to solve this problem?
I thank gratefully who ever will answer.
it seems that you can get the subfolders using batch file from perl as follows:
system("start C:\\Temp\\mybatchfile.bat");
or you might try to pass your command suggested by #Stephan straight to system and try to handle what it is returned.
I have an exe that I can drag and drop another file onto to produce a third file. Unfortunately it seems to accept only 1 file at a time, if I select multiple and drop it doesn't seem to work.
How do I create a batch file to automate the process of dragging a thousand files of .drag extension onto drop.exe?
Thanks!
In Windows, dropping a file on an exe just executes the command line:
fileprocessor.exe "<full path to dropped file>"
So you should be able to just call the exe directly in your batch file, passing the path to each file that you'd like to process.
EDIT: Look into the For batch command to do this for a series of files. You should be able to specify the wildcard and then call the command for each.
For %%a in (*.drag) do fileprocessor.exe "%%~fa"
Evidently, batch files can have multiple objects dropped onto them. See this question. You should be able to adapt the answer to your needs. I do wonder if there is a maximum number of characters that can be passed in, though, so you might not be able to drag thousands of files onto it. Possibly not even hundreds. But definitely multiple.
EDIT: In your comment to dmercredi's answer, you mention wildcards. If you don't need the drag/drop capability and just want to specify *.drag in your batch file, check out this question instead. There are a variety of answers there that may suit your needs.