DOS command help

[dbarton]

i'm trying:

xcopy "T:\in box\*.nfo" d:\nfo /s /d

I want to copy all *.nfo files from all directories under "T:\in box" to a SINGLE directory called D:\nfo

this creates sub dirs under d:\nfo with my files in it.

what can I do to do this better?

 

[bruceb]

Have a look here:

http://www.easydos.com/xcopy.html

Perhaps, you need to delete the \ after the d:

 

[seemingly random]

xcopy isn't up to this. Try:

for /r "t:\in box" %a in (*.nfo) do copy %a d:\nfo

d:\nfo needs to exist beforehand.

"for /?" reveals a wide range of capabilities.

 

[dbarton]

Originally posted by: seemingly random
xcopy isn't up to this. Try:

for /r "t:\in box" %a in (*.nfo) do copy %a d:\nfo

d:\nfo needs to exist beforehand.

"for /?" reveals a wide range of capabilities.

The 'for' command seems like it gets close, but I just cant seem to find the right syntax to do this. In your example above, the batch expects the driectories to be called *.nfo, rather than the files contained within them, so it chokes.

I can't seem to find the right command to setp to each directory and copy the *.nfo files.

Anyone?

 

[seemingly random]

Don't know what to tell you. I tried this before I posted and again just now.

Check that the following returns expected results:

dir /s "t:\in box"

Also if this is a line in a .bat file, then all % need to be doubled - as in %%a. This is a peculiarity of batch processing.

 

[dbarton]

this seems to work...

for /r "T:\in box\" %%i in (*.nfo) do copy "%%i" d:\nfo



confused, but it seems to work..

thanks for your help!

 

[seemingly random]

Yes, makes sense now. The variable in the copy command expands with spaces in your example creating invalid syntax without the quotes. Good job figuring it out.

 

[Bozo]

Maybe SyncToy from MS would work.

Bozo 😀