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Registered Member #108
Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 11:44PM
Location: Billings, MT
Posts: 61
Does anyone know what DOS copy command you would use to copy one file into multiple folders?? For instance, I have in my directory:
foo.txt DirectoryA\ DirectoryB\ DirectoryC\ Dire
ctoryD\ DirectoryE\ ...
I thought something like "copy foo.txt *\" would work, but it gives syntax errors (doesn't like a wildcard for the folder name). Does anyone know how to do this? I could do it with a VB script instead maybe, but I don't have very much experience there.
Registered Member #108
Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 11:44PM
Location: Billings, MT
Posts: 61
Ok, I have another couple questions.
I have this code, which reads the first and second token from foo.txt (which is someones first and last name), then creates a folder "lastname, firstname" and copies foo.txt to the new folder with a new filename as well as a second file that is the same as "foo.txt" except it looks something like "foo-otherstuff.prt".
My code works, but there is three problems.
A) what is the best way to read ONLY the second and third token from a file, ignoring all lines after the first?
B) I kept getting more folders than expected, which were named ",foo.txt" (the reason for the skip label)
C) Xcopy prompts me to answer whether the destination is a file or directory. the "/i" switch suppressed this prompt under the assumption that the destination is a directory, but is there a way to suppress the prompt under the assumption that the destination is a file? (there are 100+ files!)
FOR %%i IN (*.txt) DO call :read_name %%i
:read_name
REM store filename in variable
set _file=%1
REM store file contents in string
Set /P _filestuff=<%_file%
REM look through first 20 characters, storing tokens 2 and 3
FOR /F "tokens=2,3" %%i IN ("%_filestuff:~1,20%") DO call :copy_files %%i, %%j
:copy_files
set _firstname=%1
set _lastname=%2
IF "%_lastname%" == "" goto skip
set _folder=%_lastname%, %_firstname%
IF NOT EXIST "%_folder%" mkdir "%_folder%"
copy %_file% "%_folder%\WA4 - %_folder%.txt"
xcopy /Y "%_file:~0,-4%*.prt" "%_folder%\WA4 - %_folder%.prt"
:skip
Unfortunately, "copy" cannot handle wildcards like xcopy
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