cmd script for moving rar files to another directory.
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chugot9218
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Use Robocopy: http://ss64.com/nt/robocopy.html ROBOCOPY Source_folder Destination_folder [files_to_copy] [options]
sooo ROBOCOPY c:\folder e:\folder *.rar /MINAGE:1
save it as a .bat file and schedule it to run once a day, you can add the /MOV option if you want to delete the files from the source directory.
sooo ROBOCOPY c:\folder e:\folder *.rar /MINAGE:1
save it as a .bat file and schedule it to run once a day, you can add the /MOV option if you want to delete the files from the source directory.
chugot9218
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CMD line commands are extremely powerful and you can do some pretty neat things with it, it's a good thing to learn, look at all we can do with 1 line of code.
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Yup the one I posted previously is the best reference I have found, w3schools.com might have something too. Here is the main CMD index at my first post: http://ss64.com/nt/
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Sorry was out of the area this weekend, is that the actual line you used? If so, you have a space after the last \ in your source. Otherwise, it may be too old an OS to support wild cards. If you still need help post back.
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Ooops, also you need to contain it in "'s, this should be the proper one (I assume you mis-typed the administrator portion).
xcopy "c:\documents and settings\administrator\desktop\*.rar" "E:\daily backup\"
That should do it for you.
xcopy "c:\documents and settings\administrator\desktop\*.rar" "E:\daily backup\"
That should do it for you.
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I am learning new stuff myself helping you. Try this:
ECHO.| DATE >> "E:\daily backup\backuplog.txt"
xcopy "c:\documents and settings\administrator\desktop\*.rar" "E:\daily backup\" >> "E:\daily backup\backuplog.txt"
This may give you strange results though if you are prompted by XCopy, for example, I did not specify that xcopy should automatically overwrite a file, so when it prompted me with Overwrite C:\ROBOCOPYtest\test.txt (Yes/No/All)? that text was automatically written to the log file instead of displayed in the command console which can be somewhat confusing.
If you will never have to worry about overwrites, then you are good to go with these two lines. Otherwise you could append the option to XCOPY to overwrite without prompt if that's what you desire, in which case it would look like this:
ECHO.| DATE >> "E:\daily backup\backuplog.txt"
xcopy "c:\documents and settings\administrator\desktop\*.rar" "E:\daily backup\" >> "E:\daily backup\backuplog.txt" /Y
Careful that you don't run into access issues or the .bat can go into an infinite loop, in Win7 I had to run it as administrator.
ECHO.| DATE >> "E:\daily backup\backuplog.txt"
xcopy "c:\documents and settings\administrator\desktop\*.rar" "E:\daily backup\" >> "E:\daily backup\backuplog.txt"
This may give you strange results though if you are prompted by XCopy, for example, I did not specify that xcopy should automatically overwrite a file, so when it prompted me with Overwrite C:\ROBOCOPYtest\test.txt (Yes/No/All)? that text was automatically written to the log file instead of displayed in the command console which can be somewhat confusing.
If you will never have to worry about overwrites, then you are good to go with these two lines. Otherwise you could append the option to XCOPY to overwrite without prompt if that's what you desire, in which case it would look like this:
ECHO.| DATE >> "E:\daily backup\backuplog.txt"
xcopy "c:\documents and settings\administrator\desktop\*.rar" "E:\daily backup\" >> "E:\daily backup\backuplog.txt" /Y
Careful that you don't run into access issues or the .bat can go into an infinite loop, in Win7 I had to run it as administrator.
i will try this..but before that i have run in to problem.. when the script run it always ask to overright ... i have to type "N" always. otherwise it won't copy. is there any way to write this in script. I want it to not overwright exsisting file when copying... thanks...
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