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Harish Kothuri
Harish Kothuri

Reputation: 65

check if any other copy is in process before my xcopy command

I have xcopy batch utility which copies files to network drive.

Is there any way to find if any other user is copying files to the same above location before i start??

The whole idea is to prevent overwriting the files when other users are running the same.

Thanks in Advance

Upvotes: 2

Views: 374

Answers (2)

MC ND
MC ND

Reputation: 70923

9>"w:\target\file.lock" (
    xcopy "r:\source\*" "w:\target"
) && ( del "w:\target\file.lock" )

Use a lock file in your target folder.

What it does is redirect to a file (and lock it) inside the target folder the data sent to the stream 9 (there are 10 streams, 0=stdin, 1=stdout, 2=stderr, 3-9 user defined). Nothing will be written to the stream but the output file will be locked.

As the redirection is wrapping the xcopy command, the lock on the file is maintained until the command ends.

Upvotes: 2

Rahul
Rahul

Reputation: 77846

Not absolutely sure but you can use TASKLIST dos command like below; which will get you the information whether an XCOPY exe is running already.

TASKLIST /FO TABLE /NH /FI "USERNAME ne NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM" /FI "STATUS eq running" /FI "IMAGENAME eq XCOPY.exe"

Upvotes: 0

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