How copy file from subfolder to another, dir struct unknown

Razor2.3 June 22, 2013 at 10:19:14

Perhaps you'd like to explain why the directory structure is unknown? How To Ask Questions The Smart Way

Hello Razor, The reason is that I have to transfer the \AccountNumber\Subfolders to application support. I don't know (yet) in what directory they will copy the batch file structure. So for the sake of being helpful I wanted to provide a solution that's independent of their choice. Could a PATH or %~dp0 be an option? If so, how? Thanks!

Razor2.3 June 22, 2013 at 17:46:58

Read up on working directories and relative paths. If the user starts the script from explorer, the working directory will be wherever the script lives. If the user starts the script from a shortcut, the working directory is specified by the "Starting in" field. The one exception is if the user starts the script from an unmapped network share. How To Ask Questions The Smart Way

Will do Razor. Thanks for your response and directions!

This is what works. The link offers other posibilities, but in the time I had, following was most usefull: :: Copied from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/... @echo off setlocal goto MAIN ::----------------------------------------------- :: because entire path is unknown and only the current and parent folder are known, :: use following function to work with those 2 (independent of rest of dir or location). :: That way you can move a(ny) file from current working folder to another folder on same level. :: "%~f2" get abs path of %~2. ::"%~fs2" get abs path with short names of %~2. :setAbsPath setlocal set __absPath=%~f2 endlocal && set %1=%__absPath% goto :eof ::----------------------------------------------- :MAIN call :setAbsPath ABS_PATH ..\ echo %ABS_PATH% move %ABS_PATH%\00_Create_export_file\Export_account_numbers*.csv %ABS_PATH%\04_Backup_file\ endlocal