copy and rename file with path name

[novice84]

HI
can we copy files e.g. *.txt from specified folder to destination folder with file path added in file name.

[Geek-9pm]

Is this homework?
Did you want it to be all on one line? Hard to do.

Maybe a single block of code as a FOR loop?

The process would be to:
   make a DIR for the file,
   and then copy it there.
repeat for every file in nth current location.

Is that what you mean? or something else.

[novice84]

C:\F1\F2\F3\F4\D1\1.TXT
C:\F1\F2\F3\F4\D2\1.TXT
C:\F1\F2\F3\F4\D3\1.TXT

COPY THESE IN NEW FOLDER (OR EXISTING DIR) NAMED AS

C:\NEW FOLDER\F1_F2_F3_F4_D1_1.TXT
C:\NEW FOLDER\F1_F2_F3_F4_D2_1.TXT
C:\NEW FOLDER\F1_F2_F3_F4_D3_1.TXT

OR COPY WITH NAME LIKE THIS BELOW :

C:\NEW FOLDER\F1F2F3F4D11.TXT
C:\NEW FOLDER\F1F2F3F4D21.TXT
C:\NEW FOLDER\F1F2F3F4D31.TXT

[Squashman]

Is F1 your real root folder.  Having this traverse the whole directory structure of C: may cause some undesirable results.

[novice84]

no problem to skip F1 folder
if required F2 folder can be skipped also.

[novice84]

I mean if error occurs with full path, files can be Copied WITH NAMEs LIKE THIS BELOW :

C:\NEW FOLDER\F3F4D11.TXT
C:\NEW FOLDER\F3F4D21.TXT
C:\NEW FOLDER\F3F4D31.TXT

[Squashman]

That is not what I mean.  I am asking where the root directory of all your data is.  I am not sure how else to explain this to you.  You do not want to run this on the entire C: drive and then try and output to the C: drive.  Is your ROOT folder with all your data F1?

[Geek-9pm]

Squashman is saying, I think, that one does not do test of the directory
C:\
Which is root. Instead none make a directory for tests.
C:\TESTS
The if anything goes wrong, it is confined to that location.

One unconfirmed source says the maxim number of files in root can not go over 2,048. That would be one reason for not using root for tests.

[novice84]

OK I understood now what you are saying.
say my all files are in D:\F1\F2\F3\F4 (source folder)

so all files are in F4
copy to C:\NEW FOLDER(destination folder)

source and destination path will change as required e.g. if I want all files from folder D:\F1\F2\F3 or all files from folder D:\F1\F2\N3
I will change source path as required.

[Squashman]

We can put the whole path into the filenames I was just amking sure you understood the dangers of doing this on an entire Drive letter and outputting to the same drive letter.

[Lemonilla]

Code: [Select]

:: $renameWithPath.bat <source path> <destination path>

@echo off
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
cd %1
for %%A in (*.txt) do (
set path=%%~pA
set "path=!path:\=_!"
set path=!path:~1,10000!
copy "%%A" "%2\!path!%%~nxA" >nul && echo copied %%A to %2\!path!%%~nxA
)


[novice84]

almost there
sorry I think I made it confusing for you by putting *.txt as files need to be copied
I just put that as an example
if you look at my example I have mentioned files names same in all folders.
files could be similar in folders
File name or extension can be any.
say I want to copy files containing words "few*" or "*files"
or look at example below :

E:\Checking\Routine\Afternoon\15-04-13\copy.txt
E:\Checking\Routine\Afternoon\15-04-13\New copy.doc
E:\Checking\Routine\Afternoon\16-04-13\copy.txt
E:\Checking\Routine\Afternoon\16-04-13\old copy.doc
E:\Checking\Routine\Afternoon\17-04-13\new type\copy.txt
E:\Checking\Routine\Afternoon\17-04-13\new type\New copy.doc

So i can specify if want to copy files in E:\Checking\Routine\Afternoon folder all files containing word "new" to folder e.g. "C:\Temp"
or if I want I can copy all file *.txt or *.doc or by letters/words in file name

in this code it doesn't search sub folders and I could not specify paths as first line is for remarks
:: $renameWithPath.bat <source path> <destination path>

Sorry I don't know much about coding
so i want how to specify paths in this code
at the moment batch file is looking and running in the folder where it is located

[Lemonilla]

Just a quick reply, I'll look into subfolders in a bit. The way the script is set up, you specify the folders by running it with arguments from command prompt.

command prompt:

Code: [Select]


C:\>$a.bat "C:\test\1\2\3" "C:\test2"
copied 1.txt to "C:\test2"\test_1_2_3_1.txt
copied 2.txt to "C:\test2"\test_1_2_3_2.txt
copied 3.txt to "C:\test2"\test_1_2_3_3.txt
copied 4.txt to "C:\test2"\test_1_2_3_4.txt
copied 5.txt to "C:\test2"\test_1_2_3_5.txt
copied 6.txt to "C:\test2"\test_1_2_3_6.txt
copied 7.txt to "C:\test2"\test_1_2_3_7.txt
copied 8.txt to "C:\test2"\test_1_2_3_8.txt
copied 9.txt to "C:\test2"\test_1_2_3_9.txt


C:\>dir test2
 Volume in drive C is Acer
 Volume Serial Number is D0E0-609C

 Directory of C:\test2

06/27/2013  09:57 AM    <DIR>          .
06/27/2013  09:57 AM    <DIR>          ..
06/27/2013  09:54 AM                 3 test_1_2_3_1.txt
06/27/2013  09:54 AM                 3 test_1_2_3_2.txt
06/27/2013  09:54 AM                 3 test_1_2_3_3.txt
06/27/2013  09:54 AM                 3 test_1_2_3_4.txt
06/27/2013  09:54 AM                 3 test_1_2_3_5.txt
06/27/2013  09:54 AM                 3 test_1_2_3_6.txt
06/27/2013  09:54 AM                 3 test_1_2_3_7.txt
06/27/2013  09:54 AM                 3 test_1_2_3_8.txt
06/27/2013  09:54 AM                 3 test_1_2_3_9.txt
               9 File(s)             27 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  196,188,549,120 bytes free

C:\>

I will work on allowing for you to search by word, but you may have to edit the code every time.

EDIT:
This works for everything but searching, not sure how to do that.

Code: [Select]

:: $renameWithPath.bat <source path> <destination path> <extentions>

@echo off
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
cd %1
set ext=%3

for %%A in (*.!ext!) do (
set path=%%~pA
set "path=!path:\=_!"
set path=!path:~1,10000!
copy "%%A" "%2\!path!%%~nxA" >nul && echo copied %%A to %2\!path!%%~nxA
)

for /f "delims=" %%B in ('dir /b /a:d') do (
cd %%B
for %%A in (*.!ext!) do (
set path=%%~pA
set "path=!path:\=_!"
set path=!path:~1,10000!
copy "%%A" "%2\!path!%%~nxA" >nul && echo copied %%A to %2\!path!%%~nxA
)
cd ..
)


[novice84]

 nothing happening

Does it matter what we name this batch file? and where we plcae it ?

in code top line is :

:: $renameWithPath.bat <source path> <destination path> <extentions>
I am just changing top line of code like this :

:: $renameWithPath.bat "E:\Checking\Routine\Afternoon\15-04-13" "C:\test" "*.txt"

can you please tell me what am missing or making mistake ?

[Lemonilla]

Problem 1) the double :: allows for the batch file to not run the command, thus if you are simply copying and pasting, then it will not run in command line either.

Problem 2) The "$renameWithPath.bat" is the name i gave the file. You would replace this with the name you saved the code as.

Problem 3) "*.txt" should be "txt".