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General Questions - Batch files

Cheese - Thu Jun 10, 2010 11:58 pm
Post subject: Batch files

so ive been working with batch files again, with large success, but theres one thing i havnt figured out yet:

i want to translate a path which could be
*/*/*/*/*/home/src/x/*/*/*.txt
i then want to move it to
*/*/*/*/*/home/bin/x/*/*/*.txt
in a batch file at
*/*/*/*/*/home
without doing chdir.
(where * = wildcard, obviously, and */*/ can be any number of dirs)

any ideas?

i also cant figure out how to tell which dir the batch file is running from, because chdir only does the working dir...

Samapico - Fri Jun 11, 2010 12:23 am
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the batch file will run from its own directory. If you use a shortcut to run it, check target folder thing property of the shortcut, it sets the initial folder.
But you can easily set the starting folder in the batch file with a cd "..."

Why the */*/*/*/ if that's the directory of your batch file?

I have this that copied all the .so files from my src/... directory to the bin/... one, if that helps:

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@echo off

for /D %%x in (*) do if exist "%%x\Release\%%x.so" copy "%%x\Release\%%x.so" "..\..\bin\Modules\%%x\%%x.so"

if exist "..\FrontEnd\cskinviewer\Release\Discretion.exe" copy "..\FrontEnd\cskinviewer\Release\Discretion.exe" "..\..\bin\Discretion.exe"

Cheese - Fri Jun 11, 2010 12:43 am
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wierd, the working dir is the batch files location, but not if you drop files on it for %1...

sirkillsalot - Fri Jun 11, 2010 9:53 pm
Post subject: try this

@echo off
cd path filename.txt move C:\path