Windows 10: Simple batch file driving me nuts

All I want to do is check if a folder exists on a network share and if it does, copy a file to it. Should be a piece of cake. Here is my code:

Code: @echo on set "newFile=Just a test file.txt" set "hostTarget=\\Kfwserver\HP_D\ShowkeyPlus Data\" if exists "%hostTarget%" copy "%userprofile%\Documents\%newfile%" "%hostTarget%" else echo "%hostTarget%" not found.[/quote] When I run it I get this:

Code: >test C:\Users\ztruk>set "newFile=Just a test file.txt" C:\Users\ztruk>set "hostTarget=\\Kfwserver\HP_D\ShowkeyPlus Data\" "\\Kfwserver\HP_D\ShowkeyPlus Data\" was unexpected at this time. C:\Users\ztruk>if exists "\\Kfwserver\HP_D\ShowkeyPlus Data\" copy "C:\Users\ztruk\Documents\Just a test file.txt" "\\Kfwserver\HP_D\ShowkeyPlus Data\"[/quote] If I have just the first two lines all is well, so it's the third line that is causing the problems but I cana't figure out what is wrong.

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help with simple batch file

sorry if i wasn't specific enough. and i don't need it to be a batch file necessarily.

i want an automated way to move files from one folder to another (both on the C drive)
but i want it to move all mp3 files EXCEPT for the ones that begin with an underscore

 

Need solution for automating transferring of files to flash drives


I am wary of jumping straight in at the deep end so I have a couple of questions.

1 How do you know which files to copy to which memory stick? Can you put a list for each one in a text file?
2 Are you free to give each memory stick a specific label so that it can be detected in order to trigger the specific list that you have written for that memory stick?

I do have a batch file procedure for identifying the drive letter currently being used for a given external drive label. So perhaps you could trigger a common batch file that
Step 1 - checks each drive in turn to read its label and then find its current drive letter
Step 2 - for each detected drive, look up the list given in the batch file to identify which [if any] text file to look in to find the files to copy to that memory stick.
Step 3 - copies the files listed in the relevant text file

Denis

 

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