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Solve : creating multiple instances of folders in a directory? |
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Answer» I am tasked with reorganizing an academic server. I have recently realized that there needs to be another folder in each of the course folders. I don't want to go into EVERY single course folder and create a new folder using the regular windows explorer windows. is there a way to do this repetetive task in the command prompt? Thanks.yes, check out the FOR command - for /? will give help perhaps I should have given an example, so try this Sorry for my ignorance, but I'm relatively inexperienced with the command prompt. That being said, I READ the description of FOR /D and your example of code looks like the (*.*) is telling it to search in a set of files. Let me give you an example directory: │ ├───NE300 │ │ └───AY11-1 │ │ ├───ADDITIONAL Resources │ │ ├───Admin Files │ │ ├───Homework Files │ │ ├───Instructor Files │ │ ├───Lab Files │ │ ├───Lesson Files │ │ ├───Submissions │ │ └───Writs and WPRs There are about 40 more of these course directories (NE300 is a course) and I want to add a folder called JSmith in all of the existing "Instructor Files" folders. Please let me know where I am making my mistake in understanding the code you gave me. Thanks. No, you are right - sort of. Directories can be treated as files, in as much as they have a name that can be filtered by *.*, or whatever. Suppose your master directory is called courses, inside are all of the course folders NE300 NE310 NE320 NE340 etc and within each course there is an AY11-1 folder and inside that there is an Instructor Files directory This is quite easy, make Courses the current directory and execute the following to make JSmith in each Code: [Select]for /D %a in (*.*) do md "%%a\AY11-1\Instructor Files\JSmith" However, I suspect that the actual name of the AY11-1 directory is different in each course; if it is the top level (ie the only one as you seem to indicate in your tree) within the individual course directory - like this Courses ¦ +---NE300 ¦ ¦ +---AY11-1 ¦ ¦ +---Additional Resources ¦ ¦ +---Admin Files ¦ ¦ +---Homework Files ¦ ¦ +---Instructor Files ¦ ¦ +---Lab Files ¦ ¦ +---Lesson Files ¦ ¦ +---Submissions ¦ ¦ +---Writs and WPRs ¦ +---NE310 ¦ ¦ +---AY11-2 ¦ ¦ +---Additional Resources ¦ ¦ +---Admin Files ¦ ¦ +---Homework Files ¦ ¦ +---Instructor Files ¦ ¦ +---Lab Files ¦ ¦ +---Lesson Files ¦ ¦ +---Submissions ¦ ¦ +---Writs and WPRs ¦ +---NE320 ¦ ¦ +---AY11-3 ¦ ¦ +---Additional Resources ¦ ¦ +---Admin Files ¦ ¦ +---Homework Files ¦ ¦ +---Instructor Files ¦ ¦ +---Lab Files ¦ ¦ +---Lesson Files ¦ ¦ +---Submissions ¦ ¦ +---Writs and WPRs ¦ +---NE330 ¦ ¦ +---AY11-4 ¦ ¦ +---Additional Resources ¦ ¦ +---Admin Files ¦ ¦ +---Homework Files ¦ ¦ +---Instructor Files ¦ ¦ +---Lab Files ¦ ¦ +---Lesson Files ¦ ¦ +---Submissions ¦ ¦ +---Writs and WPRs then a nested loop will be needed to identify the relevant PATH to the Instructor Files. Im sure that one of my esteemed colleagues will be able to show a wonderful bracket example, here is my offering using a subroutine call -- blimey it seemed to work first time ! Code: [Select]for /D %%a in (*.*) do Call :ProcFolder "%%a" GoTo :EOF :ProcFolder for /D %%b in ("%1\*.*") do md "%%b\Instructor Files\JSmith" |
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