I would like to write a short .bat script to compare the contents of two folders.
Folder 1: Contains some 1300 files.
Folder 2: Contains some 400 files.
I would like to have a script I can run through the windows command line that takes each file in Folder 2 checks to see if a file with the same name is in Folder 1... and if it is Outputs the name of the Folder 2 file to a .csv file (or notepad I'm easy just want a list!).
Any thoughts or help would be much appreciated!
try this
(for %%i in ("folder2\*") do if exist "folder1\%%~nxi" echo(%%~i)>file.csv
Found a solution that works with remote folders and is very fast
#echo off
SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
set /p computer=Computer Name?:
set pubpath=\\%computer%\c$\docume~1\alluse~1\Desktop\
set results=excluded
set extension=txt
set xlist="ANHLIVE Desktop.lnk" "ANHLIVE EMR.lnk" "ImageNow.lnk" "IMPAX Client.lnk" "Internet Explorer.lnk" "Microsoft Excel 2010.lnk" "Microsoft Outlook 2010.lnk" "Microsoft Word 2010.lnk" "My Documents.lnk" "NextGen.RDP" "RBODowntimeLabel.doc" "desktop.ini"
set xlistcount=12
for /r %pubpath% %%g in (*) do (
set count=0
for %%a in (%xlist%) do (
set /a count=count+1
set localdir=%%a
set localdir=!localdir:~1,-1!
set remotedir=%%g
set remotedir=!remotedir:%pubpath%=!
if !localdir!==!remotedir! (
set count=12
) else (
if !count!==%xlistcount% (
echo !remotedir! >> %results%.%extension%
)
)
)
)
Echo Complete!
pause
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I have a game that I play and mod a lot, and a lot of the files in the game have file extensions that are in all caps, which bothers me quite a bit. I'm trying to change them all to be lowercase, but there are numerous folders in the game files, so I'm having to be very repetitive. Right now, I'm working with this:
cd\program files (x86)\Activision\X-Men Legends 2\Actors
start ren *.IGB *.igb
cd\program files (x86)\Activision\X-Men Legends 2\Conversations\
start ren *.XMLB *.xmlb
cd\program files (x86)\Activision\X-Men Legends 2\Conversations\act0\tutorial\tutorial1
start ren *.XMLB *.xmlb
and so on for each and every folder in the game files. I have a very long .bat file where I just have line after line of this but with a different destination folder. Is there a way to streamline this process so I don't have to manually type out each folder name? Also, is there a line that I could add at the beginning to automatically run as an administrator, so I don't have to make sure to run the .bat file as an administrator each time?
I'm not looking for anything complicated, and I'm very inexperienced with coding other than the small amount of stuff I've been able to search up.
Instead of doing it for each folder, use a for /R loop which loops through all subfolders. I would suggest the following code:
#echo off
:prompt
set /p "extensions=What are the up-case extensions you want to convert to lower-case?: "
if not defined extensions (cls & goto:prompt) else (goto:loop)
:loop
for %%A IN (%extensions%) do (
for /R "custom_folder" %%B IN (*.%%A) do (
ren "%%~fB" "%%~nB.%%A"
)
)
Take a look on this on how to run this batch file as admin. Create another batch file and add the code specified in the accepted answer.
Note: As Stephan pointed out in the comments, you can use %ProgramFiles(x86)% environment variable which is the same thing.
#echo off
setlocal
rem Check if admin.
2>nul >nul net session || goto :runasadmin
rem Start in script directory.
pushd "%~dp0" || (
>&2 echo Failed to change directory to "%~dp0".
pause
exit /b 1
)
rem Ask for directory to change to, else use the script directory if undefined.
set "dirpath=%~dp0"
set /p "dirpath=Dir path: "
rem Expand any environmental variables used in input.
call set "dirpath=%dirpath%"
rem Start in the input directory.
pushd "%dirpath%" || (
>&2 echo Failed to change directory to "%dirpath%".
pause
exit /b 1
)
rem Ask for file extensions.
echo File extensions to convert to lowercase, input lowercase.
echo i.e. doc txt
set "fileext="
set /p "fileext=File extension(s): "
if not defined fileext (
>&2 echo Failed to input file extension.
pause
exit /b 1
)
rem Display current settings.
echo dirpath: %dirpath%
echo fileext: %fileext%
pause
rem Do recursive renaming.
for %%A in (%fileext%) do for /r %%B in (*.%%A) do ren "%%~B" "%%~nB.%%A"
rem Restore to previous working directory.
popd
echo Task done.
pause
exit /b 0
:runasadmin
rem Make temporary random directory.
set "tmpdir=%temp%\%random%"
mkdir "%tmpdir%" || (
>&2 echo Failed to create temporary directory.
exit /b 1
)
rem Make VBS file to run cmd.exe as admin.
(
echo Set UAC = CreateObject^("Shell.Application"^)
echo UAC.ShellExecute "cmd.exe", "/c ""%~f0""", "", "runas", 1
) > "%tmpdir%\getadmin.vbs"
"%tmpdir%\getadmin.vbs"
rem Remove temporary random directory.
rd /s /q "%tmpdir%"
exit /b
This script is expected to start from double-click.
It will restart the script as admin if not already admin.
It will prompt to get information such as directory to change to and get file extensions i.e. doc txt (not *.doc *.txt). If you enter i.e. %cd% as the directory input, it will be expanded.
Suppose I have 50 files sorted by name.. I would like to create a batch script which gives me the following result:
Files 1 through 5 -> 01-05
Files 6 through 10 -> 06-10
and so on..How can I create a batch script to achieve this?
Note that 01-05 and 06-10 are directory names..
EDIT: Details
For eg. Consider this:
Source Directory:
101.mp4
102.mp4
103.mp4
104.mp4
and so on..
I want a resulting directory structure like this:
Destination Directory:
101-105:
101.mp4
102.mp4
103.mp4
104.mp4
105.mp4
106-110:
106.mp4
107.mp4
108.mp4
109.mp4
110.mp4
and so on..
This is what you want, change fileCount to change the file number in each subdirectory:
#echo off
SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
set fileCount=5
set filesNow=0
set nameStart=000
set nameEnd=000
FOR /F "usebackq delims=" %%i IN (`dir /b /O:N *.mp4`) do (
set /a filesNow+=1
set /a tmpValue=filesNow %% fileCount
::echo !filesNow!
::echo !fileCount!
::echo %%i
::echo !tmpValue!
if "!tmpValue!"=="1" (
set "nameStart=%%~ni"
mkdir _tmpDir_
)
move %%~nxi _tmpDir_\
if "!tmpValue!"=="0" (
rename _tmpDir_ !nameStart!-%%~ni
)
set "nameEnd=%%~ni"
)
if exist _tmpDir_ rename _tmpDir_ %nameStart%-%nameEnd%
You need to put them inside a bat/cmd file to work.
filesNow is for file number count.
Basically it's create a tmp folder and move files inside,
When files inside it reach the number, change the folder's name.
Several testing echo command I didn't remove, just used :: to comment them out, you can remove the :: to test them again.
Using a batch file, I am trying to get the last foldername in a path.
The batch file gets the current working directory, goes up one level and uses that foldername. The problem is that if the foldername has spaces like "My Project", then the below code will return just "Project".
#echo off
cls
:: get pathnames
set ProjectRoot=%~dp0..\
set ProjectRootLast=%ProjectRoot:~0, -1%
for %%f in (%ProjectRootLast%) do (
set ProjectName=%%~nxf
)
echo %ProjectRoot%
echo %ProjectName%
pause
aschipfl is right, you should use:
#echo off
cls
:: get pathnames
set "ProjectRoot=%~dp0..\"
set "ProjectRootLast=%ProjectRoot:~0,-1%"
for %%f in ("%ProjectRootLast%") do (
set "ProjectName=%%~nxf"
)
echo %ProjectRoot%
echo %ProjectName%
pause
But you could do this much more efficiently using
for %%* in (.) do echo %%~nx*
to get the name of the current directory and
for %%* in (./..) do echo %%~nx*
To get the name of the directory above that
I have thousands of JPGs named like this "aaa0001.jpg, aaa0002.jpg, aaa0003.jpg,
bbb0001.jpg, bbb0002.jpg, bbb0003.jpg, ccc0001.jpg, ccc0002.jpg, ccc0003.jpg etc." in one folder.
I have created 26 folders like this aaa, bbb, ccc, ddd etc.
Is it possible to create a script that sets all the images in the appropriate folder?
Result "aaa0001.jpg, aaa0002.jpg, aaa0003.jpg" into folder "aaa",
"bbb0001.jpg, bbb0002.jpg, bbb0003.jpg" into folder "bbb" etc.
Thank you!
My system is windows XP prof SP3...
It would go like this in a Windows/dos batch file.
The statement %fp:~0,3% determines which part of the filename is used as a foldername. 0,3 means: from the first character and the next 3 chars.
so a file named aaa001-01.jpg will give a folder of aaa.
To have files named abc001_03.jpg go into folder 001 you change the statement to %fp:~3,3%
for %%a in (*.jpg) do call :copyfile %%a
goto :eof
:copyfile
set fp=%1
set folder=%fp:~0,3%
rem remove echo on the next line...
echo copy "%1" "%folder%"
rem or for moving: move /Y "%1" "%folder%"
goto :eof
Just define the base path to create the news directorys in the VAR $path
#echo off
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
:::The path where the new Directorys will bw created
set $path="c:\Image\"
for %%a in (*.jpg) do (set $file="%%a"
set $Dir="%$path%CSV!$file:~4,3!"
if not exist "!$dir!" md "!$dir!"
move "!$file!" "!$dir!")
echo Terminated
I am trying to make a batch file to delete malicious files from pendrive. I know that these malicious files uses hidden,read only and system attributes mainly to hide itself from users. Currently i am deleting these files using cmd by removing malicious files attributes then deleting it. Now I am thinking to make a small batch file which can be used to remove these files just by entering the drive letter.
I have found this code in a website to find attributes of a file. But after entering the name of the file the batch file just exits without showing any results.
#echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
color 0a
title Find Attributes in Files
:start
set /p atname=Name of the file:
if not exist %atname% (
cls
echo No file of that name exists!
echo.
echo Press any key to go back
pause>nul
goto start
)
for /f %%i in (%atname%) do set attribs=%%~ai
set attrib1=!attribs:~0,1!
set attrib2=!attribs:~1,1!
set attrib3=!attribs:~2,1!
set attrib4=!attribs:~3,1!
set attrib5=!attribs:~4,1!
set attrib6=!attribs:~5,1!
set attrib7=!attribs:~6,1!
set attrib8=!attribs:~7,1!
set attrib9=!attribs:~8,1!
cls
if %attrib1% equ d echo Directory
if %attrib2% equ r echo Read Only
if %attrib3% equ a echo Archived
if %attrib4% equ h echo Hidden
if %attrib5% equ s echo System File
if %attrib6% equ c echo Compressed File
if %attrib7% equ o echo Offline File
if %attrib8% equ t echo Temporary File
if %attrib9% equ l echo Reparse point
echo.
echo.
echo Press any key to go back
pause>nul
goto start
can you tell me why this batch file is exiting without showing any results. Or can you give any better batch script for getting attributes of a file.
EDIT
I was able to work the above code only for a single file. As my purpose of my batch file is to remove malicious files by entering the drive letter. How can i use it to find what kind of attributes files are using in a particular drive.
For example:
In cmd we can use this command to find the file attributes of a given drive
attrib *.*
Advance thanks for your help
I tried the bat file (without inspecting the details) and it seems to work fine for me. What I noticed is that it closes instantly if you don't enclose file path with quotation marks - e.g. "file". Example:
Name of the file: path\file.txt // this will close immediately
Name of the file: "path\file.txt" // now it will stay open and display the result
This hopefully solves your problem.
As far as your question in EDIT is concerned, a simple option is to iterate a list of files and execute the batch on each one.
batch1.bat: (%1 refers to the first command-line parameter)
#echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
echo %1
set atname=%1
for %%i in ("%atname%") do set attribs=%%~ai
set attrib1=!attribs:~0,1!
set attrib2=!attribs:~1,1!
set attrib3=!attribs:~2,1!
set attrib4=!attribs:~3,1!
set attrib5=!attribs:~4,1!
set attrib6=!attribs:~5,1!
set attrib7=!attribs:~6,1!
set attrib8=!attribs:~7,1!
set attrib9=!attribs:~8,1!
cls
if %attrib1% equ d echo Directory
if %attrib2% equ r echo Read Only
if %attrib3% equ a echo Archived
if %attrib4% equ h echo Hidden
if %attrib5% equ s echo System File
if %attrib6% equ c echo Compressed File
if %attrib7% equ o echo Offline File
if %attrib8% equ t echo Temporary File
if %attrib9% equ l echo Reparse point
echo.
echo.
Next, generate a list of all files within a given path (say 'folder' including all subfolders):
dir /s /b folder > ListOfFiles.txt
main.bat (read ListOfFiles.txt line-by-line and pass each line to batch1.bat as a command line parameter):
#echo off
for /f "tokens=*" %%l in (ListOfFiles.txt) do (batch1.bat %%l)
Then, from cmd:
main.bat >> output.txt
The last step generates an output file with complete results. Granted, this can be done in a more polished (and probably shorter) way, but that's one obvious direction you could take.
You're using a for /f loop here, which isn't necessary (and may yield undesired results if the filename contains spaces). Change this:
for /f %%i in (%atname%) do set attribs=%%~ai
into this:
for %%i in ("%atname%") do set attribs=%%~ai
This is dangerous code - but it'll delete read only, hidden and system files.
It should fail to run on c: drive but I haven't tested it. Note that some Windows installs are on drives other than c:
#echo off
echo "%cd%"|find /i "c:\" >nul || (
del *.??? /ar /s /f
del *.??? /ah /s
del *.??? /as /s
)