Copying files from one folder to another using batch

Question

I'm trying to copy some files from one directory to two other directories, using batch.

First i'm making 3 directories and after that, i want to copy the following files to backup1 and backup2. The files are named 010101.txt - 300101.txt (To backup1) and 010102.txt - 300102.txt (backup2).

mkdir backup1
mkdir backup2
mkdir backup3
copy 1.txt C:\User\Test\Backup1
copy 2.txt C:\User\Test\Backup2

I guess i have to use wildcard somehow, but if i write ?????1.txt and ?????2.txt i get an syntex error.

Answer 1

Try this out:

@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion

cd /d "C:\Temp\copytest"
set "b1=C:\Temp\Backup1"
set "b2=C:\Temp\Backup2"
for /l %%a in (1,1,300102) do (
  set num=%%a
  if %%a GTR 10000 if %%a LSS 100000 set num=0%%a
  if !num:~-1! EQU 1 (
     if exist !num!.txt echo copy !num!.txt %b1%
  ) ELSE (
     if !num:~-1! EQU 2 (
       if exist !num!.txt echo copy !num!.txt %b2%
     )
  )
)

Change paths where applicable. Remove the echos after verifying the output is correct to do the actual copy.

Edit: Simpler way

Copy *1.txt "C:\User\Test\Backup1"
Copy *2.txt "C:\User\Test\Backup2"

Answer 2

@ECHO OFF
SETLOCAL
SET "sourcedir=."
FOR %%b IN (1 2) DO (
 FOR /f "delims=" %%a IN (
  'dir /b /a-d "%sourcedir%\*.txt" ^| find /i "%%b.txt" '
   ) DO (
  XCOPY "%sourcedir%\%%a" "c:\user\test\backup%%b\" >nul
 )
)
GOTO :EOF

I've assumed you want all files in the directory that contain 1.txt to be copied to ...\backup1 and those that contain 2.txt to ...\backup2.

I used my current directory for testing. You'd need to change the value assigned to 'sourcedir' to suit yourself.

Note that the xcopy will create the destination directory if necessary.