Create Folder by filename

[mitbuerger]

Hi

I have a folder full of different test files. The filename ist structured like this:

G#ID#TID.txt

so it's G for Gender (M/F), #ID for Tester-ID and #EID for exercice answer id. f.e. its F052M01S.txt.

So my plan is to put all test files for F001 into the folder "F001". How can i solve this? Must be something like

> for /F "tokens=*" %%f in ('dir /S /b %CD%\*.TXT') do (
> mkdir %%~nf
> copy "%%f" "%%~nf\%%f"
> )

but then F052M01S.txt would be in F052M01S\F052M01S.txt and not F052\F052M01S.txt.

simply... i don't know how to excerpt the first x letters of a varname ;-)
thx für help.

bye

[foxidrive]

Your description isn't very clear. If you want to copy F001*.txt to a folder called F001 then this may work with your file structure (untested).

You can replace F001 with %1 and then use the batch file to do different numbers.

@echo off
set var=F001
for /F "tokens=*" %%f in ('dir /b *.TXT ^|find "%var%"') do (
mkdir "%var%" 2>nul
copy "%%f" "%var%"
)





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Mic

[Auric__]

Try this:

setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
for %%a in (*.txt) do (
set FNAME=%%a
call :Loop
)
:Loop
set FPART=%FNAME:~0,4%
if not exist %FPART%\nul mkdir %FPART%
copy "%FNAME%" %FPART%
goto :EOF

If it works the way you want it to, change "copy" to "move".

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[foxidrive]

On 15/05/2012 9:45 AM, Auric__ wrote:
>
> Try this:

What is delayed expansion enabled when you aren't using it? :)

It could all be done in a loop with delayedexpansion

> setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
> for %%a in (*.txt) do (
> set FNAME=%%a
> call :Loop
> )
> :Loop
> set FPART=%FNAME:~0,4%
> if not exist %FPART%\nul mkdir %FPART%

the \nul trick is deprecated now.

For a folder this is reliable in NT windows: if exist "d:\folder\"

> copy "%FNAME%" %FPART%
> goto :EOF
>
> If it works the way you want it to, change "copy" to "move".
>


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Mic