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Number   :  5276
Date     :  2003-08-11
Author   :  Garry Deane
Subject  :  Re: Moving files with xxcopy
Size(KB) :  1


--- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, "Morten Lunde"  wrote:
> How can I use xxcopy to move all files from one directory
> into several subdirs based on files creation date yyyymmdd
> withouth having to create the subdirs?

I don't think you can do it in one go at the moment. However
I think Kan was talking about the possibility of introducing
a file archiving/renaming scheme that could use the file's date
as part of the name. That may work if it is introduced.

The only thing I can think of is to create a loop with a counter
and then use this counter to select files created n days ago
and copy them to a directory with a date macro offset by -n
days. How useful this would be would depend on the sort of date
range you need to deal with. Here is a batch file (NT/W2k/XP)
which will do that. It is set to stop if there are no files left
or after 20 days.

@echo off
setlocal
set src=d:\test\
set dst=f:\test\
set n=0
:loop
if not exist %src%* goto :end
xxcopy %src%\* %dst%/$yyyymmdd$\ /rcy/do#%n%/fc/tm-%n%/pd0/po0
set /a n+=1
if %n% GEQ 20 goto :end
goto loop
:end
:: delete empty directories
xxcopy %dst% /rsy/s/pd0/x*

If you've got a diverse scattering of creation dates over a
large date range, I'd use a FOR /F loop and a utility like FI 
http://home.pe.net/~fpw/freeware/ to extract the creation dates
in a convenient form then md/copy/del each file individually.

A batch like the following (untested) should get you close.

for /f "skip=1 tokens=1-3*" %%a in ('fi /tc/-c/a-d %src%') do (
set tc=%%a
set fn=%%d
call :move
)
goto :eof
:move
set tc=%tc:-=%
md %dst%%tc% 2> nul
copy "%src%%fn%" %dst%%tc% > nul
if not errorlevel 1 del "%src%%fn%"
goto :eof

Garry



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