[batch] move file

Well, indeed, in VBS it's better... Sorry, I thought it was fun to do it in batch!

But floriaan60, I advise you to switch to VBS for Windows administration, although personally I don't like it at all (I don't find this language logical, I prefer C/C++ or the Unix shell languages (BASH, KSH...) which are simpler to my taste).

Hum, you're not a complicated guy, are you? ;p

I would create a file rep.txt in the same folder as my batch, containing the list of all the relevant paths (WARNING: DO NOT DO THIS IN C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32)

Then I'll create a batch containing something like (I'll let you refine it...) :
FOR %%J IN (rep.txt) DO CALL batch1.bat %%J

And in batch1.bat, I would replace SET MONREP=c:\ with SET MONREP=%1%

But there must be other ways.
I didn't find post 29, is that normal?

Moving is fine too.
And do you have a tip for copying folders that contain files from 2006 with the directory structure?

It works. The .bat file placed on the desktop copied the files located at the root of C:.

You can remove the echo %MONREP%, it's just for debugging and replace copy with move.
I think if one works, the other will work too.

And just so you know, neither
for /F "tokens=4" %I IN (tmp2) DO move %%i C:\2006

nor
for /F "tokens=4" %%I IN (tmp2) DO move %%i C:\2006

will work because it is
for /F "tokens=4" %I IN (tmp2) DO move %%I C:\2006

I have Windows XP SP2 and it works for me (in bold what I modified
@echo off

SET MONREP=c:\
echo %MONREP%

rem we list the files in the current directory sorted by modification date and write the list in the tmp file
dir %MONREP% /O:D /T:W > tmp

rem We keep only the files and only those from 2006
findstr /V /C:"<REP>" "tmp"|findstr /C:"/2006" > tmp2

rem We delete the tmp file
del tmp

rem for each entry, we delete the file, simulated here by an echo (del /F /Q)
for /F "tokens=4" %%I IN (tmp2) DO copy "%MONREP%%%I" C:\2006

rem We delete the tmp2 file
del tmp2

for /F "tokens=4" %I IN (tmp2) DO move "C:\Documents and Settings\fdefrocourt\%%i" "C:\2006\"

Heu try rather :
dir "c:\your directory" /O:D /T:W

Don't forget the colons otherwise it won't work.

Sorry, I forgot you wanted to move...

Don't you have a 2006 file on your c:\ by any chance? Just in case, add quotes around c:\2006 and put a \ at the end. Also, add the full path of your source file.
for /F "tokens=4" %I IN (tmp2) DO move "c:\your directory\"%%i "C:\2006\"

To make it easier for you, after @echo off, add the line SET MONREP="c:\mydirectory\" and replace "c:\mydirectory\" with %%MONREP.

I removed the content from 2006
I placed the .bat in the folder of what I want to copy.
2006 is empty
tmp2 is empty

But does it copy the folders?

au final j'ai ce code:

@echo off

rem We list the files in the current directory sorted by modification date and write the list to the tmp file
dir /O:D /T:W > tmp

rem We keep only the files and only those from 2006
findstr /V /C:"<REP>" "tmp" | findstr /C:"/2006" > tmp2

rem We delete the tmp file
del tmp

rem For each entry, we delete the file, simulated here by an echo (del /F /Q)
for /F "tokens=4" %I IN (tmp2) DO move %%i C:\2006

rem We delete the tmp2 file
del tmp2

I have tmp2 created on my desktop but that's all I see lol

Alright.
But in the end, where is my file with all the unmodified documents since 2006? lol

Ha, as I'm at it, here are a few possible improvements:
Replace /2006 with a variable that you can define as a parameter in your script (with parameters corresponding to %1, %2....%0 being the name of the script)
Add a variable after the options of the dir containing the path to the files you want to process
...

I advise you to type HELP in a command interface, you will see the basic commands of the Windows shell and NET HELP to see what the NT4 commands are called.

Sorry, it proves I'm not a good developer ;p

DIR /O:D /T:W > tmp
I do a dir to list the files in the directory. The O:D option sorts the entries by date, and the T:W option sets the date field to the last modified date. The > tmp redirects the output to a tmp file (I could have called it toto.txt if you prefer...), which means that there will be no display of the dir, but everything will be in a tmp file (if you run the command in a cmd window (Start > Run > cmd), you won't see anything displayed, but if you open tmp with Notepad, you will see the dir output!

FINDSTR /V /C:"<REP>" "tmp" | FINDSTR /C:"/2006" > tmp2
Here I was cruel with you! I used findstr to search for lines in the tmp file NOT CONTAINING (option /V) the string (the /C:) <REP> to keep only the files. The | is what we call a "pipe", it allows redirecting (like the > above!) the output of the command to another command, which is another findstr that will search for lines CONTAINING the string /2006 in the result (and thus only the file list, without the directories) of the previous command.

FOR /F "tokens=4" %%I IN (tmp2) DO @ECHO %%I
Basically, it says "For each 4th field that will be equal to I in the tmp2 file, execute the @ECHO command (the @ prevents displaying the line c:\echo ...) with the content of I. The fields are the entries separated by spaces or tabs (look at the dir output, and you will see that the file name is in the fourth field).
The two % are for the script; in a command window, one is sufficient (see cmd /?).
For you, you will replace echo with a DEL /F /Q

I encourage you to type each command with /? as a parameter to display the help; you will get more details.

In fact, if you look closely, I could have written:
DIR /T:W | FINDSTR /V /C:"<REP>" | FINDSTR /C:"/2006" > tmp
FOR /F "tokens=4" %%I IN (tmp) DO @ECHO %%I

But I preferred to break it down a bit.

```plaintext
Try this:

@echo off

rem List the files in the current directory sorted by modification date and write the list to the tmp file
dir /O:D /T:W > tmp

rem Only keep the files and only those from 2006
findstr /V /C:"<rep>" "tmp"|findstr /C:"/2006" > tmp2

rem Delete the tmp file
del tmp

rem For each entry, delete the file, here simulated by an echo (del /F /Q)
for /F "tokens=4" %%I IN (tmp2) DO @echo %%I

rem Delete the tmp2 file
del tmp2
```</rep>

Le ".??????" représente un motif de critères de recherche pour les fichiers dont les noms ont une extension de six caractères. Dans ce cas, le xcopy va copier tous les fichiers du répertoire Temp qui ont des extensions composées de six lettres vers le répertoire 2006, tout en incluant les sous-dossiers grâce aux options /s et /e.

En ce qui concerne la commande donnée (xcopy [source] [Dest] [Option]), le second paramètre, qui est la destination, est en effet essentiel car il détermine où les fichiers seront copiés. Dans ce cas, c'est c:\2006.

Well, I would like to use move ...
or copy then delete.

Le paramètre /D dans la commande xcopy est utilisé pour copier des fichiers qui ont été modifiés après une certaine date. La syntaxe générale est la suivante :

```
xcopy source destination /D:date
```

Si vous n'indiquez pas de date après le /D, xcopy ne copiera que les fichiers dont la date de modification est plus récente que celle du fichier de destination.