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Oscar
Oscar

Reputation: 3

Is it possible to automate file moving and naming via Windows CMD?

I'm looking for a way to, on boot, move everything on my desktop to Users/[My User]/Archive/[TODAYSDATE]/. Is this possible to do in Windows with a BAT-script? I've done a similar thing on Linux and a friend helped me with Cron jobs.

How would a script like that be written, and how would it be automated? Scheduled task?

Thanks in advance!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 435

Answers (2)

BraedenP
BraedenP

Reputation: 7215

For the batch file, it can be as simple as:

robocopy your_folder_path your_destination_path /SEC /MIR /V /TS
del your_folder_path\*

And then as suggested prior, just set a scheduled task in Windows. How you set it up will depend on which version of Windows you're running.

Upvotes: 1

Marc Bouvier
Marc Bouvier

Reputation: 702

You can use scheduled tasks. In Windows xp you can find it in control panel.

In latest versions it is in control panel > administrative tools.

I think the script would look like this

move /Y path\of\origin\* path\of\destination

Upvotes: 0

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