Windows 10: A simple batch file...?

Hi,


It's been a while since I delved into the depths of Windows - and long before Windows 10 - but I would like to write a batch file to copy files from a folder on my Windows 10 PC to 2 separate folders - one on an SD card and the other on an external hard drive (I have my reasons!)


There are two complications:


The files an extension *.xyz and a backup of the same file has the extension *.xyx.backup (not my doing!) and I only want to copy the *.fra files.


The destination folders have sub-folders named similar to a date, eg "201905" for May 2019 and I would like to use the 'Date modified' value of the files to be copied to place them in the appropriate folder, eg filename1.xyz with a modified date of 12/12/2019 to be copied to the 201912 folder.


I thought Xcopy would be the way forward - and I can do the simple bit - but not with the complications above.


Any help would be appreciated, thanks

:)

 

help with simple batch file

i want to create a batch file that will:
move files from 'directory1' to 'directory2'
if (and only if) the file DOES NOT begin with an underscore

anyone know how to do this??

David

 

Batch Files Knowledge Base

Don't use batch files very much but one I find useful is for creating a list of files in a directory.
Just copy the text below into Notepad and save as Filelist.bat

dir /a /-p /o:gen >filelist.txt

When you run it from a folder it will create a Filelist.txt file,in the same folder, that lists all the files in that folder.Useful when you are too lazy to type all the files out yourself.

 

Batch Files Knowledge Base

Very nice and usefull thanks for contributing.