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Niranjan R
Niranjan R

Reputation: 37

Copy a file and paste to multiple folders

I want to copy a file and paste that file to multiple folders.

Designation path : c:\exam\*\mark, * is subject. I have many folders with different subjects. I am using a batch file like,

for /d %%a in ("c:\exam\*\mark") do copy "C:\name\add.txt" "%%a"

but this is not working for me, please give a suggestion to correct this code.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2736

Answers (2)

jeb
jeb

Reputation: 82192

for /d can't handle wildcharacters inside a path, it's only allowed in the last element.

But you can simply try to copy to the destination, if the destination path doesn't exist it fails and the error will redirected to nul.
Or you can test first if the destination exists, like Endoro showed.

for /d %%a in ("c:\exam\*") do (
    copy "C:\name\add.txt" "%%a\mark\" 2> nul
)

Upvotes: 3

Endoro
Endoro

Reputation: 37569

one loop is enough:

for /d %%a in (c:\exam\*) do if exist "%%~a\mark\" copy "C:\name\add.txt" "%%~a\mark"

Upvotes: 7

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