Hi,

I have a very simple BATCH file script to copy files in the current folder to another folder, but it also copies the actual .bat file. How can I EXCLUDE the .bat file from also being copied?

here is what I have so far:

copy /-Y *.xml F:\\Test
Exit

I tried this:

except *.bat copy /-Y *.xml F:\\Test
Exit

with and without brackets but it does not work.

Any help WOULD be appreciated.
Jaime


The simple way is to have the batch file itself in another directory.
Let's say your stuff in in D:STUFF
and the bat file name MYBAT.BAT is in D:\BAT
then  go into D:STUFF directory  and give the command
d:\bat\mybat
Which will only operate on files in the current directory and sub directories.


Sounds LIKE a good workaround, but I would like for it to send files from the current dir. rather than pull files from the current dir.

The target folder is a watched folder where all files in it are pulled into a translations program and automatically added to a TRANSLATION workflow project. So I do want to avoid adding any files to the watched folder that do not belong there.

Jaime
If you use the copy command with the *.xml filemask then only files with extension .xml will be copied, and files with the extension .bat (or any other extension except .xml) will be ignored. Check your code.


Yes, sorry, I meant to write *.* so as to copy all files in the directory.

Thanks,
Jaime
You can use a FOR loop and DIR to list the files to copy and skip the batch file's own name (which is %0) (that is a ZERO)

Code: [Select]echo off
for /f "delims=" %%A in ('dir /b /a-d') do if not "%%A"=="%0" copy /-Y "%%A" F:\\Test