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Help with a batch file please - Defining multiple source destinations & archiving

Hi All

I am creating a batch file that copies the contents of 3 folders to a single folder.

I have not got very far at the moment as:

1) I want to copy from 3 source locations to the same destination folder and not sure how to separate these into the code rather than using a repetition of code.

2) After the files have successfully copied to the destination folder I would like to move them from the source folders completely and place them into a folder called ARCHIVE

This is where I am currently at:

copy /-y "C:\PO" "c:\ABSFiles"

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Patrick Bogers

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Matthew Emery

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Hi Patrick

Sorry if this is being stupid but the move command works great but the files are not copied into the ABSFiles folder first, this is what I have got to:

Copy /y "C:\ABS\PO\*.*" "c:\ABSFiles"
Copy /y "C:\ABS\RETURN\*.*" "c:\ABSFiles"
Copy /y "C:\ABS\GRN\*.*" "c:\ABSFiles"
Move /y C:\ABS\PO\*.* C:\ABS\ABSArchive
Move /y C:\ABS\RETURN\*.* C:\ABS\ABSArchive
Move /y C:\ABS\GRN\*.* C:\ABS\ABSArchive

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Also I am going to set this up as scheduled task so does that mean I need to remove the Y function?

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Matthew Emery

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Thank you so much Patrick.

The above did work perfectly it was my account having write permissions to the C drive so when I put this on the server all files copy and move as intended :-)

Patrick Bogers

Cheers buddy

Help with a batch file please - Defining multiple source destinations &amp; archiving

Help with a batch file please - Defining multiple source destinations & archiving