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Copy + Rename in DOS
Name: gav Date: September 8, 2004 at 03:07:29 Pacific OS: WIn 2000 CPU/Ram: P4
Comment:
I'm not sure how much of this is possible in DOS but any help would be appreciated.
I have a folder with several thousand files all named aaaa_bbbbbb#bbbbbb_yyyymmddhhmmss.sum, where aaaa is a 4 digit number and bbbbbb is a 6 digit number and the last bit is a date/time stamp.
What I'm trying to do is copy all the files with a certain value for 'bbbbbb' (there will be multiple files that match this) to another folder and remove the 'aaaa_' from the start of the name.
Its been years since I've even looked at DOS so I have no idea where to begin. Any help would be great.
Name: IVO Date: September 8, 2004 at 03:37:19 Pacific
Reply:
Just set up the following two lines batch, name it MyCopy.bat and type MyCopy From_Folder To_Folder Number (e.g. MyCopy C:\MyDir C:\NewDir\SubDir 567980), blanks not allowed in folder's name.
@Echo Off
For /F "tokens=1,* delims=_" %%A in ('Dir /B %~f1\????_%3*.sum') Do ( Copy %~f1\%%A_%%B %~f2\%%B)
By the way that is NT-kernelk scripting as there is no DOS at all in Win 2K/XP, only an emulator.
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Response Number 2
Name: gav Date: September 8, 2004 at 04:05:56 Pacific
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