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Solve : I want to create batch program with the script bellow. Please help me.?

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Hello everybody,

I have some file *.txt created in folder A. I want move them to folder B.

Condition:

+ If any filename.txt created from folder A, namesake filename.txt already EXISTS on the folder B.  It will display a warning: "Filename already exists, can not move"

+ If folder A is empty. It will display a warning: "Do not have a .txt file in the folder A"

Please help me.

Is this homework or a school assignment?
Is that one question or two, Salmon Trout? 



My question: I wonder if the OP wants to use copy and delete as the FUNCTIONAL commands? One, really, I wasn't sure if every English-speaking country uses the word 'homework' for work assigned to a student to be done at home.
Dear foxidrive and Salmon Trout,

This is not homework? This is the job I assigned.

I can only write the simple command:

Code: [Select]MOVE D:\Data\Desk\*.txt \\server01\user\mkt\Work
But I can not write the command line satisfying the following conditions:

+ If any filename.txt created from folder "Desk", namesake filename.txt already exists on the folder "Work" => echo Filename already exists, can not move
+ If folder "Desk" is empty => echo Do not have a .txt file in the folder Desk

Please help me.

Thank you very much
Quote from: Salmon Trout on June 11, 2015, 10:23:47 AM

One, really

I didn't mean it as more than a rhetorical question.  I should have said so.

Quote from: tomycao on June 11, 2015, 07:51:04 PM
This is not homework? This is the job I assigned.

I don't mean to make mountains out of molehills either but how come you have this job and don't have the knowledge to solve it?

I would still consider this a trivial question set by a school.

To Mods:  Should we avoid commenting on things in this way, when the task seems like they are avoiding learning what should have been discussed in class already?

I'd hate for the good name of the forum to be devalued by my fairly irrelevant comments - I can simply ignore such threads if that is preferable.

It would seem the OP has a job that requires him to you the one-line batch command to move a file. But he finds that operation throws an error.
In many real world jobs the issue is to fix errors, not write programs.

Maybe this outline represents what he wants to do.

Fetch a file name from souse list.
If  target directory does not have  that file
  Begin
    If source file not busy, move it to target
    Else complain
  end.
If more in list, repeat.

The above is NOT batch code. It is a way of humans expressing a possible solution.

Some IT PROS find that need to  spend as much time on an outline as the actual code.

OP, does this represent your problem?

This may help.

Code: [Select]echo off

set folderA=Put Name Of Source Folder Here
set folderB=Put Name Of Target Folder Here

for /f "delims=*" %%i in ('dir /b %folderA%\*.txt 2^>^&1') do (
if /i "%%i" EQU "File Not Found" (
echo No .txt Files In Folder A
goto :eof
)

if not exist %folderB%\%%i (
  move "%folderA%\%%i" "%folderB%" > nul
  echo %%i Moved To %folderB%
) else (
echo %%i Exists In %folderB%
)
)


Save the script with a .bat extension and run from the NT command prompt. Be sure to put valid paths in the two set statements at the top of the script.

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This is not homework? This is the job I assigned.

We don't help you do your job either... Quote from: patio on June 12, 2015, 04:11:19 PM
We don't help you do your job either...
Exactly. We do it for nothing, in our spare time and the OP who got a job by lying at the interview about their IT skills gets a. the CREDIT b. gets paid for our work and the worst part: c. probably doesn't understand why we object, just like the students who think that "research" includes posting "write my code for me" on forums.

Now that sidewinder has raised the bar and gone to the effort of providing code,
it's fun to give it a go in a different way.

Code: [Select]
echo off

set "folderA=c:\folder"
set "folderB=d:\folder"

if not exist "%folderA%\*.txt" echo Give me my money back, there are no txt files here&goto :EOF

for %%a in ("%folderA%\*.txt") do (
     if exist "%folderB%\%%~nxa" (
            echo "Filename already exists, can not move"
      ) else (
            move "%%~a" "%folderB%"
      )
)
I just thought... maybe I'm a hypocrite (see my post above) because when I am stuck for a bit of code I will happily search Stack Exchange... Quote from: Salmon Trout on June 13, 2015, 04:52:29 AM
when I am stuck for a bit of code I will happily search Stack Exchange...

There's no hypocritical comment or shame in that - you're a capable coder and saving time
instead of reinventing the wheel. 

Those people, and I shouldn't point the finger at the OP here, but there are so many bods
who ask for code about elementary tasks that are quite likely to be coursework, and they
aren't learning the skills to create code for themselves in the first place.

Can you imagine what software of the future will look like when so many people copy and
paste code that *might* do the job together, but they don't really follow what is going on
and - bug city will be the new normal.

Maybe it won't be quite that pronounced, and maybe the people asking are doing a course
which just NEEDS this coding as a requirement, and will never code again.

It's still lazy IMO and too often there is no thank you, or the same question is pasted
onto 23 forums and there is still no followup.

Oh, BTW, have I run out of rant-time yet?

Quote from: foxidrive on June 13, 2015, 08:57:13 AM

Oh, BTW, have I run out of rant-time yet?
No, you have roll-over from last month.  Dear Geek-9pm,

Thank you for your explanation.

I'm not a programmer, so my problem has description is not good .

Best regards


Quote from: Geek-9pm on June 12, 2015, 10:06:45 AM
It would seem the OP has a job that requires him to you the one-line batch command to move a file. But he finds that operation throws an error.
In many real world jobs the issue is to fix errors, not write programs.

Maybe this outline represents what he wants to do.

Fetch a file name from souse list.
If  target directory does not have  that file
  Begin
    If source file not busy, move it to target
    Else complain
  end.
If more in list, repeat.

The above is NOT batch code. It is a way of humans expressing a possible solution.

Some IT pros find that need to  spend as much time on an outline as the actual code.

OP, does this represent your problem?


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