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Gaige Hailey
Gaige Hailey

Reputation: 1

I need help copying a file to all folders within a directory

I need to be able to copy a file.txt in "C:\Some Directory\" to every folder within "C:\Some Other Directory"

So far, I have come up with this code:

@echo off
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
Cd "C:\Some Other Directory"
for /d /r %%G in (*) do (
    Copy "C:\Some Directory\file.txt" "C:\Some Other Directory\%%G"
)

However, when I run it, It returns this error for each folder:

c:\Some Other Path\Folder
   0 file(s) copied
The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.

Any ideas?

Update

Derp, I just had to remove the /r, it was searching for files that didn't exist.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 32

Answers (1)

Magoo
Magoo

Reputation: 80203

%%G will contain the entire destination path, so "C:\Some Other Directory\%%G" will be resolved to "C:\Some Other Directory\C:\Some Other Directory\a_subdirectory"

Simply remove the C:\Some Other Directory\ prefix.

Upvotes: 2

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