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arsewi
arsewi

Reputation: 15

copying file into wildcard folder using batch file

I want to put some files into some particular folders that shares same identification (numbering).

File Pile_XX.jnl.txt to a folder XX_(FolderName), XX is the identification number.

This is what I did, but it does not work

for %%i in ( 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32) do (

echo copying Pile_%%i.jnl.txt

copy Pile_%%i.jnl.txt   %%i*/Comp/mdl/pile.jnl   

echo.

)

it says wrong syntax

thanks!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 63

Answers (1)

Stephan
Stephan

Reputation: 56155

use another for to get the subdirectories and copy to them one after the other:

echo off
for /l %%i in (3,1,32) do (
 echo --- %%i ---
 for /d %%d in (%%i_*) do ( 
  echo copy "Pile_%%i.jnl.txt" "%%d\comp\mdl\pile.jnl"
 )
)

Remove the ECHO if the output satisfies you.

(I changed your %%i loop to a for /L because it's shorter, but on the other hand, it works only for consecutive numbers)

Upvotes: 1

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