I have a directory which looks like this:
\isa\documents\2004\2008\jac\file1.txt
\isa\documents\2004\jan\file1.txt
\isa\scannedDocs\2004\2009\jan\file2.pdf
\isa\documents\2005\2008\jac\file1.txt
\isa\documents\2003\jan\file1.txt
\isa\scannedDocs\2002\2009\jan\file2.pdf
I have a list of files I need copied (exported from a database), but because I don't need EVERY file in the directory, I only want the ones copied from my list:
Files-needed.txt:
\isa\documents\2004\2008\jac\file1.txt
\isa\documents\2004\jan\file1.txt
\isa\documents\2004\jac\file3.txt
\isa\documents\2003\jan\file1.txt
Basically:
- I'll need to copy out the specific files needed, and
- Log when a file can't be found, and,
- I need folder structure retained, as the files might have the same name, just in different directories.
It's on a windows 7 machine, and I can run PowerShell and batch files. I tried robocopy and xcopy and either got all of the directories and no files or all files and no directories...
Any assistance would be great.
EDITS:
Okay, so i have tried Robocopy, but it is either copying the directories and no files or files and no directories. I haven't tried anything in powershell yet, but that might be the way...
It is Windows, I might have just written the slashes incorrectly above, I work between both environments, and was just trying to explain the problem.
Things I tried:
@echo off
set src_folder="C:\batchScripting\TEST_DIR\"
set dst_folder="C:\batchScripting\COPY2_DIR\"
robocopy "C:\batchScripting\TEST_DIR" "C:\batchScripting\COPY2_DIR" FileList.txt /S /V /NP /LOG:"log.log" /R:10 /W:30
and
@echo off
set src_folder=C:\batchScripting\TEST_DIR\
set dst_folder=C:\batchScripting\COPY2_DIR\
for /f "tokens=*" %%i in (File-list.txt) DO xcopy /s /i "%src_folder%\%%i" "%dst_folder%"