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Number   :  10768
Date     :  2005-03-12
Author   :  John Zeman
Subject  :  Re: Limiting search of directories
Size(KB) :  1



--- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, "noopykat2002"  wrote:
> 
> 
> I am attempting to create a script to archive files based on last 
> accessed date. I want to automate this as the number of folders 
> (folder1, folder2, etc.) may vary from time to time. The folder 
> structure on a fileshare similar to the one below:
> 
> I:
> \mainfiles1
> \folder1
> \subfolder1
> \subfolder2
> \mainfiles2
> \folder1
> \subfolder1
> \subfolder2
> \folder2
> \subfolder1
> \subfolder2
> \folder3
> \subfolder1
> \subfolder2
> 
> I only want to search under mainfiles2. There are about 60 folders 
> which may contain any number of subfolders. There are various files 
> in the folder and in all the subfolders. Is there a way to create a 
> script that will only search the root of folder1, folder2, folder3, 
> etc. for files and not the subfolder1, subfolder2, etc.
> 
> Thanks.


I am not sure I understand your question but if you only want to
xxcopy files in one level of directories, you could use the
combination of the following 2 options:

/x\* /dL:2

where 

/x\* will exclude the files in the source root.

and

/DL:2 will limit the source directory processing to 2 levels (with
the first level being excluded by the first option).

So the following script should copy files from the source, to the
destination based on the last accessed date, but only copy files in
the first subdirectory level of I:\mainfiles2\

xxcopy I:\mainfiles2\ \DST\ /bn/fa/s/r/h/tca/ff/x\* /dL:2

John



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