I am trying to copy a folder structure with all data but need to skip folders who have named as 'others'. I created .bat file and trying to move source to destination. I used xcopy /e and exist to check folder but I can't make it. How can I do it?
Use robocopy /E /XD <exclude_file>. See robocopy /? for more options.
create a exclude.txt list into which you can specify which folders or sub folders you want to skip.
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xcopy "source" "destination" /EXCLUDE:exclude.txt
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for /r "C:\Users\bui\Desktop\Annotation Traing Package\test1" %i in (*03.json) do copy "%i" "C:\Users\bui\Desktop\Annotation Traing Package\test2"
i want to copy all 03.json files from test1 to test2 but in test1 folder, there are subfolders, and in those subfolders also have 03.json files. With for loop i cant loop through subfolders and copy 03.json files in it, but i also want to copy those subfolders from test1 to test2 with those 03.jon files in it. is there possible way to do it?
i tried using xcopy to copy those subfolders first then use for loop but no use, bc they copy all files to "C:\Users\bui\Desktop\Annotation Traing Package\test2"
RoBoCopy is the best method to do this IMHO.
Robocopy "C:\Users\bui\Desktop\Annotation Traing Package\test1" "C:\Users\bui\Desktop\Annotation Traing Package\test2" *03.json /E /S /B
The Robocopy utility is made to copy directory trees and matching files and has been included in windows since Windows 7 released in 2009.
Note I used /E assuming you would want the folders which are empty assuming you may have things like log folders which contain no "03.json" files
If you do not want to create empty directories when they do not contain "03.json" files, then simply omit the /E option
I have created a batch file to copy one folders files to another folder.
This code XCOPY C:\Temp\a.txt C:\Temp2\a.txt /Q works but when i run this file it ask Overwrite C:\Temp2\a.txt (Yes/No/All)?
I want to do this without asking this question. How can i do ? And i want to this for aspx or aspx.cs files
From the manual:
/Y Suppresses prompting to confirm you want to overwrite an existing
destination file
So just add the /Y option in order to overwrite all files without asking.
If you want to copy all files that contain "aspx", you can use
XCOPY C:\Temp\aspx* C:\Temp2\ /Q /Y
You can try this :
XCOPY C:\Temp\a.txt C:\Temp2\a.txt /Q /Y
Im trying to make a batch file that will copy all new files and folders from a source folder to an network directory. All the new subdirectories and new files should be copied (backup).
My code:
xcopy "C:\Source" "T:\Backup" /d/i/s/q
(/d for only new files, /i because source is a dir, /s for all the subdirs and files, /q just to supress the copy text)
Source contains both subdirectories and files (.txt).
The first run it copies Everything as it should. When I add a new .txt file to one of the existing subdirectories and run it again I get the message:
"An error occured when the file The directory is not empty. was being created.
The folder "T:\Backup" could not be created.
0 files copied.
(Translated from Swedish so not 100% original)
The thing is when I try this command to a local source like e.g. "C:\test" and do the same procedure it works.
Anyone who can understand why this doesn't work for the network drive?
Should I try Another command such as robocopy?
Skip xcopy and use robocopy with the /E flag instead. It's built into all recent versions of Windows. Free download for XP.
Example:
robocopy c:\source T:\backup /E
That will copy all the files in the "source" folder to the "backup" folder that haven't been copied already.
And if you don't want to have the output shown on the console (equivalent to the /Q option in xcopy):
robocopy c:\source T:\backup /E /LOG:nul
Robocopy must be better because it should create directories with the \E switch. No overwrites for files, just adds a file with extra letters or extension <> command. Still must defrag.
XCOPY "DRIVE LETTER:\windows.old\USERS" "\computername\D\NAME\" /D /E /C /R /I /K /Y /f
I am trying to copy a folder from one directory to another in the CMD in Windows 7.
I have found commands for copying individual files:
copy test.txt "C:\NewLocation"
Which works fine. However trying something like this:
copy "C:\Test" "C:\NewLocation"
doesn't work. It wants to take the contents of the directory and move them over. Is there anyway to copy the FOLDER and move it as opposed to the entire directory contents?
Thanks.
Use xcopy instead of copy:
xcopy "C:\Test" "C:\NewLocation" /s /e
source
You can't "copy" folders, but you can "move" them:
move c:\test c:\newlocation
You could use xcopy:
xcopy /S C:\Test C:\NewLocation
I am trying to write a Windows Batch file that will allow me to move all directories within a given source directory into a target directory that exists within that source directory.
Obviously my move command with need to only apply to directories and also exclude the target directory from being processed.
Is this possible with a Windows batch command?
Robocopy (present in recent versions of windows or downloadable from the WRK) can do this, just use the /xd switch to exclude the target directory from the copy;
robocopy c:\source\ c:\source\target\ *.* /E /XD c:\source\target\ /move
FOR /d %%i IN (*) DO IF NOT "%%i"=="target" move "%%i" target
That won't work - you'll get an error telling you the target directory is inside the source directory or so, even if you explicitly exclude the target directory. What you can do is move the directories to a temporary location which is not under the source, and then move them into the target.
BTW, using the move command won't let you specify folders to exclude. For that you can use xcopy, but note that it will copy the folders, as opposed to move them. If that matters, you can delete whatever you want afterwards, just make sure you don't delete the target dir, which is in the source dir...
Using robocopy included with Windows 7, I found the /XD option did not prevent the source folder from also being moved.
Solution:
SET MoveDirSource=\\Server\Folder
SET MoveDirDestination=Z:\Folder
FOR /D %%i IN ("%MoveDirSource%\*") DO ROBOCOPY /MOVE /E "%%i" "%MoveDirDestination%\%%~nxi"
This loops through the top level folders and runs robocopy for each.
NB: Robocopy mentioned above using the /move flag will copy the files and then delete them from the source folder rather than moving the files. This may be critical if moving large numbers of files from one location to another on the same disk (because move is virtually instantaneous, while copying is a much slower operation)
On windows batch:
FOR /d %%i IN (MySourceDirectory\*) DO move "%%i" MyTargetDirectory\%%~ni
The above command moves all directories found in MySourceDirectory (/d) to MyTargetDirectory using the original directory name
(~ni) Robocopy's move first does a copy, then delete, so it is slower.
This works for me:
move c:\fromDir\*.* c:\toDir\