XCOPY ---- Progress Display ... ?

[nothlit]

I have a batch file that is coping directories from a network path to another network path and in most cases I am coping about 300 files which can take a good 10 minutes. What I want to do is have something display on the screen that says Working . a few moments later Working .. and a few moments later Working ... that then maybe resets after 10 . or something. I have come across some bits of code but not really what I am looking for.


Excerpt of my current code ...

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Goto :Xcopy1

:Xcopy1
rem Pause & Echo Check folder structure for correct number of files & Rem ECHO Type 'D' if asked for directory or file? & sleep 3
Echo Working ...
Echo.>>%log%
Echo **********XCOPY START %Time%**********>>%log%
xcopy %DevelopHost%\bank\T%CN%\Parms %ProductionSrv%\bank\T%CN%\Parms /Y>>%log%

Rem Xcopy Parms and Forms from IRDTEMPLATE
cls
Echo Working ...
Echo.>>%log%
Echo **********XCOPY Parms/Forms from IRDTEMPLATE**********>>%log%
xcopy %ProductionSrv%\irdimagetemplates\Parms %ProductionSrv%\bank\T%CN%\Parms /Y>>%log%
Echo.>>%log%
rem md %ProductionSrv%\bank\T%CN%\Forms
Echo D | xcopy %ProductionSrv%\irdimagetemplates\Forms %ProductionSrv%\bank\T%CN%\Forms /Y>>%log%
Echo.>>%log%
Echo D | xcopy %ProductionSrv%\bank\T%CN%\Forms %ProductionSrv%\bank\%CN%\Forms /Y>>%log%
Echo **********XCOPY for T%CN% Finished %M%/%D%/%Y% %Time%**********>>%log%
Rem Delete Date.ctl
cd\
Y:
cd bank\T%CN%\Parms
Echo Deleting Date.ctl from %ProductionSrv%\bank\T%CN%\Parms>>%log% & Del /P Date.ctl & Echo Date.ctl deleted & Sleep 2


Examples of code I have found ... (Might be useful for others on other things, seems pretty cool)

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@ECHO OFF
set "max=11"
call :initProgress %max% "Window Title: [PPP]"
for /l %%N in (1,1,%max%) do (
    ping -n 2 -w 1 127.0.0.1>NUL
    call:doProgress
)
GOTO:EOF

:initProgress max format -- initialize an internal progress counter and display the progress in percent
::                       -- max    [in]     - progress counter maximum, equal to 100 percent
::                       -- format [in,opt] - title string formatter, default is '[P] completed.'
:$created 20060101 :$changed 20080327
:$source http://www.dostips.com
set /a "ProgressCnt=-1"
set /a "ProgressMax=%~1"
set "ProgressFormat=%~2"
if not defined ProgressFormat set "ProgressFormat=[PPPP]"
set "ProgressFormat=%ProgressFormat:[PPPP]=[P] completed.%"
call:doProgress
EXIT /b


:doProgress -- display the next progress tick
:$created 20060101 :$changed 20080327
:$source http://www.dostips.com
set /a "ProgressCnt+=1"
SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
set /a "per100=100*ProgressCnt/ProgressMax"
set /a "per10=per100/10"
set /a "per10m=10-per100/10-1"
set "P=%per100%%%"
set "PP="
for /l %%N in (0,1,%per10%) do call set "PP=%%PP%%*"
for /l %%N in (%per10%,1,9) do call set "PP=%%PP%% "
set "PPP="
for /l %%N in (0,1,%per10m%) do call set "PPP=%%PPP%%*"
set "ProgressFormat=%ProgressFormat:[P]=!P!%"
set "ProgressFormat=%ProgressFormat:[PP]=!PP!%"
set "ProgressFormat=%ProgressFormat:[PPP]=!PPP!%"
title %ProgressFormat%
EXIT /b


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REM http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Microsoft_Operating_Systems/MS_DOS/Q_23923370.html

@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
echo.
echo.
set i=1
cls
(Set /P j=Running the command) < NUL
ECHO.
echo.

FOR /l %%a in (1,1,79) do set j=!j!²
FOR /l %%a in (1,1,79) do set j=!j!
(Set /P j=!j!) < NUL

:start
call :show %i%

:put the command in the next line
ping -n 1 127.0.0.1 > NUL

set /a i = i + 1
if /i %i% leq 79 goto start
ECHO.
ECHO.
(Set /P j=End) < NUL
ECHO.
PAUSE>NUL
goto :EOF
 
:show
(Set /P j=Û) < NUL
set /a p=(%1*100)/79
title !p!%% Done
exit /b
endlocal


[nothlit]

I don't if something like below would be a start or not, but I was playing with this to see if I can xcopy a single file from the dir command, but didn't get very far with that process. Thanks for anyones help or advise.

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rem @echo off
set wkdir=%cd%\workdir
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
md "%wkdir%"

pushd %wkdir%
Set /a count=0
for /f "tokens=1 delims=" %%A in ('dir /b /a:-d /o:-d 2^>NUL') do call :PROCESS "%%A"
echo %%A
popd
goto :end

:PROCESS
set /a count+=1

Echo %%A & pause
goto :eor

[Helpmeh]

To answer your first post, you can't do that while still doing another command (XCOPY for example).

To do that sort of thing without another command executing at the same time, use ping.

[nothlit]

Is there a way to use a For loop to xcopy one file at a time thus in between echoing Working . or Working .. etc.

[Helpmeh]

That should be possible, I'm not good with FOR so I can't help...sorry

[BatchFileCommand]

Or if you just want to keep it simple you could just make another batch file with the working. thing. Then just call that batch file.

[Helpmeh]

But call won't continue the first batch untill the other is done.

[BatchFileCommand]

Hm, forgot about that.....Screw that then.

[Sidewinder]

It's true that once XCOPY starts executing control will not be given over to another process. If you can dumb down XCOPY to COPY, you can this show this primitive progress bar between copy operations:

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@echo off
for /f "tokens=* delims=" %%x in ('dir /a-d /s /b drive:\source') do (
<nul set/p z= .
copy %%x drive:\target > nul
        >nul ping localhost -n 2 
  )

Change drive:\source and drive:\target as required. The ping is not required. Used for eye candy. The progress bar shows dots in this example, but that too can be changed.

 

[nothlit]

Ok I came up with this, thanks Sidewinder ...

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@echo off
set wkdir=%cd%\workdir
set dest=%cd%\dest
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
md "%wkdir%"


pushd %wkdir%
rem Set /a count=0
cls
for /f "tokens=* delims=" %%A in ('dir /b /a:-d /o:-d 2^>NUL') do (
rem set /a count+=1
<nul set /p z= .
Echo F | xcopy "%wkdir%\%%A" "%dest%\%%A" > nul
rem >nul ping localhost -n 2
rem Echo %%A & pause
)
popd
ping localhost -n 5 >nul
Echo end & pause
Looks like my problem before was calling another process to do the xcopy ... didn't realize that calling another process doesn't keep the VAR %%A

Sidewinder ... what is the point of this?

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<nul set /p z= .
Ok I get it displays '.' on the screen each time we go through the for loop, but wouldn't Echo . produce the same results, just trying to understand why you have it this way instead. Thanks again for your reply and help.

[Sidewinder]

Using the echo command would produce a series of vertical dots as echo adds a carriage return/line feed after the echoed text.

This particular set command prompts the user with a dot prompt and automatically responds with nul input (no carriage control/line feed). By doing so, the cursor remains on the same line when it executes the set the next time thru the loop.

I found this in my world famous snippet closet under too smart by half.

If you really want to show off, you could determine how many files were to be processed and then incoporate something like this (replacing the 20 with a variable of course):

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@echo off
for /l %%x in (20, -1, 0) do (
   <nul set/p z= %%x
   >nul ping localhost -n 2 
  )

Good luck. 

[nothlit]

Ok this is what I have and I know why it won't work because of how I have the For loops set up, but don't know how to fix it ....

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@echo off
set wkdir=%cd%\workdir
set dest=%cd%\dest
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
md "%wkdir%"


pushd %wkdir%
Set /a count=0
cls

Echo Counting ... & ping localhost -n 3 >nul & cls

for /f "delims=" %%a in ('dir /b /a:-d /o:-d 2^>NUL') do call :PROCESS "%%a"
popd
goto :end

:PROCESS
set /a count+=1
rem Echo  File Count in %wkdir% is %Count%
goto :eor
:end
Echo  Final File Count in %wkdir% is %Count% & pause

pushd %wkdir%
cls

Echo Start & Echo.


for /f "tokens=* delims=" %%A in ('dir /b /a:-d /o:-d 2^>NUL') do (


for /l %%x in (%count%, -1, 0) do (
    <nul set/p z= %%x
Echo F | xcopy "%wkdir%\%%A" "%dest%\%%A" > nul
    >nul ping localhost -n 2 
  )
)
popd

ping localhost -n 5 >nul
Echo. & Echo end & pause

Basically the way it is working I think I need to reorder something or change how I count the files. Maybe I'm just tired and have been looking at it too long. Whatever the case can you take a look and see how to reorder organize ... I think I like the idea of counting down.

[Sidewinder]

There is some code I'm not understanding. You make a directory, push to make it the current directory, then run a dir list on it? Would the directory be empty? When testing I had workdir full of files and copied them to dest.

When nesting loops, the innermost runs to completion before the top loop cycles again. There is no :eor label for the goto (typo?).

Batch files should be sleek and productive. The baseline here is a copy operation. The rest is bells and whistles that add a cuteness factor. I give it a 8.3 

Think of this example as the lite-version of your code.

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@echo off
set wkdir=%cd%\workdir
set dest=%cd%\dest
if not exist "%wkdir%" md "%wkdir%"
pushd %wkdir%

:: Get Number of Files in Dir
for /f "tokens=1*" %%i in ('dir /a:-d ^| find /i "file(s)"') do set count=%%i

echo Start Copy Operation
:: Copy Files; Show Progress
for /f "delims=" %%a in ('dir /b /a:-d /o:-d') do (
<nul call set/p z= %%count%%
        copy "%wkdir%\%%a" "%dest%\%%a" > nul
  >nul ping localhost -n 2 
  set /a count-=1
)
popd
echo.
echo End Copy Operation

Happy coding. 

[nothlit]

There is some code I'm not understanding. You make a directory, push to make it the current directory, then run a dir list on it? Would the directory be empty? When testing I had workdir full of files and copied them to dest.

When nesting loops, the innermost runs to completion before the top loop cycles again. There is no :eor label for the goto (typo?).

Happy coding. 

MD ... Your right I made the directory as this is a lite version of a version of xcopy I already use so I basically just pulled some of the code out so I could get some advice. I am doing a directory listing to run a counter on the number of files in the directory tree. When coping from Network folder to Network folder I might have some 300 plus files which can take a long time so the whole point of this is to make it so the user knows that the process is still running without having to go to the server to verify files are still being copied in ... most users wouldn't know how to do that anyway.

:EOR ... when I was originally coding this if I had a real label it wouldn't work right it would exit out or something, didn't take notes just know that by having it goto no where it would stay in the loop to count the number of files.


Ok ... now that I've said this I will read the code and let you know what I think.

[nothlit]

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<nul call set/p z= %%count%%
       
  >nul ping localhost -n 2 
    

What is the difference between <nul & >nul> ... is this the same thing as ping localhost -n 2 >nul?  I have never seen >nul first, I know when put at the end it sends it to nothing or not to console and it appears putting in front does the same thing ... just curious.