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move files if not .jpg
Posted on 2006-11-22
Hi there,
With a .cmd batchfile I want to move files from one dir to another if they dont have the extension jpg
Erik
With a .cmd batchfile I want to move files from one dir to another if they dont have the extension jpg
Erik
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The normal XCOPY command can do this but not in a very neat way,
XCOPY c:\yoursource\*.* d:\yourdestination /EXCLUDE:C:\yourexcludedir
the excludefile.txt is a txt file containing one line.
.JPG
Only thing to be wary of is that If any part of the absolute path for each source file matches a line in the exclude file, the file is not copied, so if the files were in a directory called "something.jpg" this wouldnt work.
XCOPY c:\yoursource\*.* d:\yourdestination /EXCLUDE:C:\yourexcludedir
the excludefile.txt is a txt file containing one line.
.JPG
Only thing to be wary of is that If any part of the absolute path for each source file matches a line in the exclude file, the file is not copied, so if the files were in a directory called "something.jpg" this wouldnt work.
Active 7 days ago
Hi,
To move a file and exclude a wildcard isn't possible with standard windows batch language. There is probably a way to do it using a FOR loop with a certain file types list but I don't have the syntax to hand. To move them in a hacky way then something like this will work in a batch file:
@echo off
attrib +h c:\images\*.jpg
xcopy c:\images\*.* c:\images2\ > NUL
del c:\images\*.* /a-H /Q > nul
attrib -h c:\images\*.jpg
This batch file will hide all jpg's in a certain dir (in my example I used an images dir on my PC). I then copy using xcopy as by default xcopy doesn't copy hidden files. You have to tell it to copy hidden ones if you want that. Then I delete them from the source directory and exclude hidden files from the delete command. Both the copy and delete have their outputs suppressed by redirectly the output to NUL. Then you alter the attributes to unhide the hidden jpgs. Hacky and not very neat but it meets your requirements.
Regards,
Lee
To move a file and exclude a wildcard isn't possible with standard windows batch language. There is probably a way to do it using a FOR loop with a certain file types list but I don't have the syntax to hand. To move them in a hacky way then something like this will work in a batch file:
@echo off
attrib +h c:\images\*.jpg
xcopy c:\images\*.* c:\images2\ > NUL
del c:\images\*.* /a-H /Q > nul
attrib -h c:\images\*.jpg
This batch file will hide all jpg's in a certain dir (in my example I used an images dir on my PC). I then copy using xcopy as by default xcopy doesn't copy hidden files. You have to tell it to copy hidden ones if you want that. Then I delete them from the source directory and exclude hidden files from the delete command. Both the copy and delete have their outputs suppressed by redirectly the output to NUL. Then you alter the attributes to unhide the hidden jpgs. Hacky and not very neat but it meets your requirements.
Regards,
Lee
An alternative is to look at the results of the dir /b command and then only move the files that do not have a jpg or JPG file extension (This is case sensitive).
[Start Code]
@echo off
:: set the source and target directories
:: replace these two variable values with your directory paths
:: if your paths have spaces in them, I would use the short name instead of using quotes
:: e.g. c:\program files could be c:\progra~1
set srcDir=C:\begin\replacethi
set trgDir=C:\end\replacethis\
:: look in the source directory and only move the files we care about
for /f "tokens=1,2 delims=." %%j in ('dir %srcDir% /b') do (
if not "%%k"=="jpg" (
if not "%%k"=="JPG" (
xcopy %srcDir%%%j.%%k %trgDir%
)
)
)
[End Code]
HTH
Dave
[Start Code]
@echo off
:: set the source and target directories
:: replace these two variable values with your directory paths
:: if your paths have spaces in them, I would use the short name instead of using quotes
:: e.g. c:\program files could be c:\progra~1
set srcDir=C:\begin\replacethi
set trgDir=C:\end\replacethis\
:: look in the source directory and only move the files we care about
for /f "tokens=1,2 delims=." %%j in ('dir %srcDir% /b') do (
if not "%%k"=="jpg" (
if not "%%k"=="JPG" (
xcopy %srcDir%%%j.%%k %trgDir%
)
)
)
[End Code]
HTH
Dave
Hello fmew,
Try this:
@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
cd OriginalDir
set ExcludeExt=jpg
set OtherDir=folder
if not exist !OtherDir! mkdir !OtherDir!
for %%a in (*.*) do (
set name=%%a
echo !name:~2!>..\tmp
findstr /I /C:!ExcludeExt! ..\tmp > NUL
if !errorlevel!==1 move /y %%a !OtherDir!\%%a
)
del ..\tmp
cd ..
endlocal
Try this:
@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
cd OriginalDir
set ExcludeExt=jpg
set OtherDir=folder
if not exist !OtherDir! mkdir !OtherDir!
for %%a in (*.*) do (
set name=%%a
echo !name:~2!>..\tmp
findstr /I /C:!ExcludeExt! ..\tmp > NUL
if !errorlevel!==1 move /y %%a !OtherDir!\%%a
)
del ..\tmp
cd ..
endlocal
Or maybe you'll like this one better. You can specify multiple exclude extensions:
@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
set DirOriginal=%cd%
set DirContainingFiles=Data
set DirToMoveTo=Moved
set ExcludeExt=[jpg][gif]
cd !DirContainingFiles!
if not exist !DirToMoveTo! mkdir !DirToMoveTo!
for %%a in (*.*) do (
set name=%%a
echo !name:~2!>!DirOriginal!\tm
findstr /i /r !ExcludeExt! !DirOriginal!\tmp > nul
if not !errorlevel!==0 move /y %%a !DirToMoveTo!\%%a
)
cd !DirOriginal!
del tmp
endlocal
@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
set DirOriginal=%cd%
set DirContainingFiles=Data
set DirToMoveTo=Moved
set ExcludeExt=[jpg][gif]
cd !DirContainingFiles!
if not exist !DirToMoveTo! mkdir !DirToMoveTo!
for %%a in (*.*) do (
set name=%%a
echo !name:~2!>!DirOriginal!\tm
findstr /i /r !ExcludeExt! !DirOriginal!\tmp > nul
if not !errorlevel!==0 move /y %%a !DirToMoveTo!\%%a
)
cd !DirOriginal!
del tmp
endlocal
Active 7 days ago
Hi,
Raymun, that's pretty cool. I knew there was a way of doing this with a FOR loop. Hats off to you!
Regards,
Lee
Raymun, that's pretty cool. I knew there was a way of doing this with a FOR loop. Hats off to you!
Regards,
Lee
i know you want a DOS batchfile, but i have to say how ridiculously easy this'd be under bash :) (or if you have cygwin)
this one line command should do it for you:
find . \! -iname "*.jpg" -type f -exec cp '{}' target_dir \;
where target_dir is the directory you want to place the files in (works best if target_dir is not a sub-dir of current dir).
e.g. you want to move all non jpg files from folder1 to folder2
ls -laF
# ./folder1/
# ./folder2/
cd folder1
find . \! -iname "*.jpg" -type f -exec cp '{}' ../folder2 \;
explanation of command: find all files that don't end in .jpg (-iname) makes it case-insensitive, ensure that it is a file and not a dir (-type f) and for each such file, execute the command "cp '{}' ../folder2" where '{}' is replaced by the name of the file found. this works for subdirs of folder1 as well.
this one line command should do it for you:
find . \! -iname "*.jpg" -type f -exec cp '{}' target_dir \;
where target_dir is the directory you want to place the files in (works best if target_dir is not a sub-dir of current dir).
e.g. you want to move all non jpg files from folder1 to folder2
ls -laF
# ./folder1/
# ./folder2/
cd folder1
find . \! -iname "*.jpg" -type f -exec cp '{}' ../folder2 \;
explanation of command: find all files that don't end in .jpg (-iname) makes it case-insensitive, ensure that it is a file and not a dir (-type f) and for each such file, execute the command "cp '{}' ../folder2" where '{}' is replaced by the name of the file found. this works for subdirs of folder1 as well.
Hi Everybody,
Thx for all your comments. Iám busy, so it will not be till friday for me to look at it.
Its the thing that Raymun does Iam looking for.
Hi chhokra_expert,
I dont know bash :) (or cygwin, but this looks good to.
Hi Raymun,
Looks good again. I will look at it. You do this: ExcludeExt=[jpg][gif][etc]
Is it possible to do something like IncludeExt=[jpg] and then move every file that is not included?
I did the other code from you, that works fine, but I had a dir with 90000 files. I put 4000 files in one dir (you know, folder0 folder1 etc). After 4 folders (=something less then 16000 files) the code just stops. I can live with that, but do you know what causes this limitation?
See you
Erik
Thx for all your comments. Iám busy, so it will not be till friday for me to look at it.
Its the thing that Raymun does Iam looking for.
Hi chhokra_expert,
I dont know bash :) (or cygwin, but this looks good to.
Hi Raymun,
Looks good again. I will look at it. You do this: ExcludeExt=[jpg][gif][etc]
Is it possible to do something like IncludeExt=[jpg] and then move every file that is not included?
I did the other code from you, that works fine, but I had a dir with 90000 files. I put 4000 files in one dir (you know, folder0 folder1 etc). After 4 folders (=something less then 16000 files) the code just stops. I can live with that, but do you know what causes this limitation?
See you
Erik
Good question. I originally thought it was just your system specs but he same thing happened to me (on a Core 2 duo w/ 2GB ram) but at approx. 24000 files. I don't know what's causing it. Anyhow, I refined the code. The previous one didn't do any error checking like checking for two or four-letter extensions and it incorrectly excluded files with the specified extension anywhere in the extension, such as .jjjjjjpg. The following does:
@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
set DirOriginal=%cd%
set Tmp=%DirOriginal%\tmp
:: --------- modify these ------------
set DirContainingFiles=Data
set DirToMoveTo=Moved
set ExcludesFile=%DirOriginal%
:: --------------------------
cd %DirContainingFiles%
if not exist !DirToMoveTo! md !DirToMoveTo!
for /f "tokens=1,2 delims=." %%a in ('dir /b') do (
if not %%b.==. (
echo %%b>%Tmp%
findstr /i /x /g:%ExcludesFile% %Tmp% > nul
if not !errorlevel!==0 move /y %%a.%%b %DirToMoveTo%\%%a.%%b
)
)
cd %DirOriginal%
del %Tmp%
endlocal
In the excludes file you can list all the extensions to exclude, one per line e.g.
jpg
gif
bmp
ext
...and so on
@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
set DirOriginal=%cd%
set Tmp=%DirOriginal%\tmp
:: --------- modify these ------------
set DirContainingFiles=Data
set DirToMoveTo=Moved
set ExcludesFile=%DirOriginal%
:: --------------------------
cd %DirContainingFiles%
if not exist !DirToMoveTo! md !DirToMoveTo!
for /f "tokens=1,2 delims=." %%a in ('dir /b') do (
if not %%b.==. (
echo %%b>%Tmp%
findstr /i /x /g:%ExcludesFile% %Tmp% > nul
if not !errorlevel!==0 move /y %%a.%%b %DirToMoveTo%\%%a.%%b
)
)
cd %DirOriginal%
del %Tmp%
endlocal
In the excludes file you can list all the extensions to exclude, one per line e.g.
jpg
gif
bmp
ext
...and so on
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