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bat files??

EpiphoneSpecial · 2003-03-26 21:25:19

a ? about .bat files!!! i want a .bat file that will copy the the location of other files from a .txt and then copy those files to say the a: drive. the .txt will have 'C;\winnt\myfile1.txt' 'C;\winnt\myfile2.txt' it reads the txt and then copies those two files to a different location that i specify. cheers

26-03-2003 10:25PM

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EpiphoneSpecial

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a ? about .bat files!!!
i want a .bat file that will copy the the location of other files from a .txt and then copy those files to say the a: drive.

the .txt will have 'C;\winnt\myfile1.txt'
'C;\winnt\myfile2.txt'

it reads the txt and then copies those two files to a different location that i specify.

cheers

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#2 27-03-2003 04:34AM

marauder

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This works in XP...

FOR /F %%i IN (myfile.txt) DO copy %%i a:\

do a help for at the dos prompt for details The key with this is to use %% instead of % in batch files....

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