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Robocopy output remove leading spaces in log file

Hi

I am using Robocopy to copy files. I want to only see the directory and filename and send it to a log file.

this works well:

robocopy g:\2d\gt\ g:\test /mir /njh /njs /fp /ns /np /nc /log:rout.txt

only problem is I get a leading space pad in rout.txt

                        g:\2d\gt\0001002DGT07
                        g:\2d\gt\0001002DGT08
                        g:\2d\gt\0001002DGT09
                        g:\2d\gt\0001002DGT0A
                        g:\2d\gt\0001002DGT0B

would like to get

g:\2d\gt\0001002DGT07
g:\2d\gt\0001002DGT08
g:\2d\gt\0001002DGT09
g:\2d\gt\0001002DGT0A
g:\2d\gt\0001002DGT0B

I could write a script to clean up after, but would be good to get it all in the Robocopy command

Bill Prew

I've seen this mentioned before and I've never seen anyone find a solution that involved getting ROBOCOPY to write the log file with no spaces or tabs before the filenames. The questions I have seen about this always ended up back with post processing the log file to remove extra spacing on the lines. Sorry...

~bp

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mbkitmgr

If anyone finds the fix I too would love to know.

I started using Robocopy since the NT4 days and the logging didnt truncate the output like it does now...anyone from MS listening to these posts?

Ben Personick (Previously QCubed)

post processing is the one way I've been able to handle this, (whether in-line with a for-loop or running after the fact) the padding has been written into robobopy directly.. it's like any command you have to deal with how it formats, it just sucks how robobopy formats.

Charles Baldo

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Thank you all