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shelnors
shelnors

Reputation: 3

I want to copy files, listed in a .txt file, into a new folder

I have roughly 2000 documents in one folder and I want to seperate them into different folders. I have created a "documents.txt", which lists every file I´m interested in.

The .txt file reads as:

C:\Users\NIE\Desktop\test2\one.pdf
C:\Users\NIE\Desktop\test2\two.pdf
C:\Users\NIE\Desktop\test2\three.pdf

So now I went on creating a .bat file:

@echo off 
FOR /F "delims=" %a IN (C:\Users\...\Desktop\test2\documents.txt) DO COPY "%%~a" "C:\Users\...\Desktop\test2\kopieren\%%~nxa"

The folder structure is like:

In "...\Desktop\test2", all documents are located. In a subfolder ("...\Desktop\test2\copy"), the specific documents (as listed in the documents.txt) should be copied.

While running my code, I´m getting the statement:

%C:\Users\...\Desktop\test2\one.pdf
The syntax for the filename, path is wrong
       0 files were copied.

So I guess the "%" seems to be the bad guy here. I tried different styles for the .txt file, like

one.pdf
userprofile%\Desktop\test2\one.pdf   (thought I could use the first % for completing the "%userprofile%" stuff

Every solution I could find via google did not worked either, the formatting of the .txt file seems to be a problem in my case.

Really looking forward for you answers :)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 149

Answers (1)

Happy Face
Happy Face

Reputation: 1071

Looks like you have done a fatal mistake: %a
Fixed:

FOR /F "delims=" %%a IN (C:\Users\...\Desktop\test2\documents.txt) DO COPY "%%~a" "C:\Users\...\Desktop\test2\kopieren\%%~nxa"

Upvotes: 1

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