Require a script to make a copy of all files in a folder and rename the copies to text files

Question

I'm looking to run a batch file in a specific folder and copy all files in that directory and rename those copies including it's extension to .txt

I.e, if there are files called fhnbye.zip and 212obtr.xls I want it to make copies of it and rename it to fhnbye.zip.txt and 212obtr.xls.txt

Is that possible?

Answer 1

This is a plain batch task:

@echo off
pushd "c:\data\folder"
echo creating "%%a.txt"
for /f "delims=" %%a in ('dir /b /a-d ') do copy /y "%%a" "%%a.txt" >nul
popd

Answer 2

OK, not to complicated, but there are some things you need to fill out before you can run this batch file (make sure its run in the same directory):

@echo off
set dir="C:\users\...[path to copy target (that is NEW location)]"
copy *.* %dir%\*.txt

And DONE!

Note, it will ask you for permission to overwrite files, if you have more then one file with the same name.

Edit 1

This code uses forfiles and will only work on windows 7 if you have windows tool installed (most computers will)

@echo off
set dir="C:\users\...[path to copy target (that is NEW location)]"
forfiles /c "cmd /c (copy @file %dir%\@file.txt)"

It should work fine.

Mona