I have a batch file to copy over files from Web folder to my local folder.
Web folder destination look like this:
G:\program files\2023\subfolder_1\1.txt
G:\program files\2023\subfolder_1\1_total.txt
G:\program files\2023\subfolder_1\2.txt
G:\program files\2023\subfolder_1\2_total.txt
G:\program files\2023\subfolder_1\3.txt
G:\program files\2023\subfolder_1\3_total.txt
G:\program files\2023\subfolder_1\4.txt
G:\program files\2023\subfolder_1\4_total.txt
G:\program files\2023\subfolder_1\5.txt
G:\program files\2023\subfolder_1\5_total.txt
The script I uesd:
xcopy /s "G:\program files\2023\subfolder_1\*.txt" c:\temp\myfiles\lessons
Then local destination look like this:
c:\myfiles\lessons\subfolder_1_5\1.txt
c:\myfiles\lessons\subfolder_1_5\1_total.txt
c:\myfiles\lessons\subfolder_1_5\2.txt
c:\myfiles\lessons\subfolder_1_5\2_total.txt
c:\myfiles\lessons\subfolder_1_5\3.txt
c:\myfiles\lessons\subfolder_1_5\3_total.txt
c:\myfiles\lessons\subfolder_1_5\4.txt
c:\myfiles\lessons\subfolder_1_5\4_total.txt
c:\myfiles\lessons\subfolder_1_5\5.txt
c:\myfiles\lessons\subfolder_1_5\5_total.txt
I desired:
c:\temp\myfiles\lessons\1.txt
c:\temp\myfiles\lessons\2.txt
c:\temp\myfiles\lessons\3.txt
c:\temp\myfiles\lessons\4.txt
c:\temp\myfiles\lessons\5.txt
I only want to copy .txt
but exclude _total.txt
,also don't contain subfolder in my local folder.What am I missing?
The first problem/Question
You have subfolder 1 now I suppose you have 2,3 and 4 as well?
xcopy /s "G:\program files\2023*.txt" "c:\temp\myfiles\lessons"
/s will copy subfolders as well, in this case all txt-files in each subfolder
For exclude it should be some like /exclude:"*_total.txt"
EDIT - I was a little to fast in my answer :) Create a txt file, add only _total.txt
and use this as /exclude Ex. /exclude:excludedfileslist.txt
Then it will skip copy that file as well
Good luck