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Delay Copy in Batch File

Is there a way to create a bat file to copy over several files in intervals?
Meaning copy one file then wait 60 seconds and copy over the next file?

Thanks,

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Chris Nienaber

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Bill Prew

I can't help but ask, since it could affect what solutions are recommended. What problem or effect are you trying to accomplish by pausing in between file copies? Is it true that you don't want to copy the same file over at different times, but different files that already exist in a folder?

~bp

tgarrity

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The scenario:

I have a folder on Server A containing 500 .xml files and 15,000 .pdf files.
The .xml files contain info on where to file .pdf files on Server B.
I need to copy one .xml file at a time to Server B every 120 seconds.
The .pdf files can be ignored, but wanted to make everyone aware as a copy *.* will not work in this case. I'm having to copy the .xml files one at a time due to a resource issue on Server B.
If I dump all 500 .xml files onto Server B, Server B will not process the .xml files and in turn will not correctly file the .pdf files.

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t0t0

Okay, to solve this issue, forget about delays etc... that's nonsense

Your code should consist of a single batch file which reads the information from each xml file one-at-a-time and then process pdf files accordingly.

From a top-level design viewpoint, the code (in pseudocode) shoulf look something like this:

FOR all XML files in the XML folder/s
get the next XML file
process it's data
file PDF files accroding to data
END

It's as simple as that.

I'm busy right now writing code elsewhere however, when I am through with that I will return here to assist you further if in the meantime another expert has not already done so.

tgarrity

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I ended up using the following script:

FOR /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('dir /b *.xml') do (
copy "%%a" "Z:\"
ping 1.1.1.1 -n 90
)

pause

Thanks for all the help!