Hi
I need a script that will help me copy gif files from one folder to another according to picture number.
I have a single folder containing ~200,000 files including many ubc images.
The filename of the images is built like this:
WeInput_du185_wu.110.303.3.1_picture340_frame303_ref303_Det_InImage1.gif
Manual Input: slice number, source folder, destination folder (I can change the input in text editor, or any other way you specify).
I wrote this script
@echo off
set /p file="Enter search cretiria:"
set /p source="Enter Source folder (c:\folder name):"
set /p dest=" Enter destnation folder (c:\folder name:)"
forfiles /p %source% /m *%file%*.gif /c "cmd /c copy @file %dest%"

It's work find on Win7
but not working in XP
any suggestion or alternative ?
(I try to dowwnload from http://www.petri.co.il/download_free_reskit_tools.htm but it's doest work good..)

That's because that link is for the Windows 2000 resource tools. Forfiles had a different syntax in Windows 2000. You need to download Forfiles that come with Windows 2003.

Hi
From where I get 2003 ver?
or
Can you post another alternative script that I don't need to copy this file to sys32 and it will work fine also in XP.

Try this on some sample files and folders (untested):

Hi
thanks nice script
but I have question to understand it good..
1. why you need dir /b /a-d?
(/b give you the bare files and its quite good)
2.why you need copy /b /y
/b for binary?
/y - why exacly?

/a-d stops any folder that might match the filespec from causing errors. It's possible, as folders can have extensions.

/b /y allows the batch file to overwrite existing files, to stop the batch file from halting if files already exist. /b is for a binary copy.

The /a-d switch will show you everything in the directory but the directories themselves.
And the /y switch stands for yes; it will suppress any "overwrite file?" prompt.

Hi
Can you explain why or what is binary copy?

This is the definition of binary file. COPY command needs /binary copying because of these binary files.

The reason why you need /b is that in past versions of Microsoft OS the copy command stops copying when it encounters an EOF byte/character, and many non-text files contain these bytes.

These days I think the copy command has been enhanced and it will automatically switch to binary copy mode on some filetypes - but probably not all. It's still prudent to use /b to be sure.

The amusing thing is that it is safe to use /b even on text files so there is no reason not to use it all of the time

(except when concatenating several text files in this format)

copy file1.txt + file2.txt + file3.txt fileout

I use /B even in that instance. The reason being is because it will put an EOF character at the end of the combined file if you don't.

The problem is that with /b in this way it can embed EOF characters within the text file - if the text files have them.