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niemoy
niemoy

Reputation: 87

Copy and Rename Files with batch file

I have thousands of text files formatted something similar to abcdefgh_20140430120000.txt

I would like to copy those from one folder to another folder like 

xcopy "Y:\FolderA" "C:\FolderB"

However, I want to remove the time portion in the file name so that the text file would look like abcdefgh_20140430.txt

Can anyone help me with code to do so?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 47393

Answers (3)

Squishalot
Squishalot

Reputation: 11

COPY "C:PathOfFileToCopy\Filename" "C:PathOfCopyDestination\NewFilename"

RENAME "C:PathOfFileToCopy\Filename" NewFileName

Upvotes: -1

foxidrive
foxidrive

Reputation: 41234

Launch this in the folder: it should copy them as you wish and remove the last 6 characters of the filename.

Filenames with ! in them will generate an error.

@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
for /f "delims=" %%a in ('dir *.txt /b /a-d ') do (
    set "name=%%~na"
    copy "%%a" "C:\FolderB\!name:~0,-6!%%~xa" 
)

Upvotes: 4

benimen16
benimen16

Reputation: 186

You could use the rename command to rid of the unwanted parts of the copied file name.

copy "Y:\FolderA" "C:\FolderB"
rename "C:\FolderB" "C:\FolderC"

That should work, if you have any problems then tell me and I'll try my best to fix it :)

You also do not need the x in front of copy, or at least I didn't need it since I'm using Windows 8.1, if that has anything to do with it.

Upvotes: 3

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