copy one file to many folders 1

[jamus]

Does anyone know how I can copy or transfer a file to a folder and all its subfolders without having to do it one at a time?

any help much appreciated.

jamus

 

[captnstiles]

How or what are you attempting to use to does such a task?
Are FTP'ing(WS_FTP or command line), Using Windows explorer(drag and Drop), Dos (xcopy)???

 

[richgill]

There are various ways of doing this. How about the following in a batch file

for /f %%i in ('dir /ad /s /b') do copy %1 %%i

This will the copy the file you specify (ie %1) to all subdirectories but actually misses out the top level subdirectory, so you can just add that as a 2nd line in the batch file.

 

[jamus]

hi and thank you both for your help, I was working on creating a warm server back up for my PDC and needed to copy a file to multiple folders to capture NTFS permission.

Have found a work around using 3rd party apps.

Still, thanks for the help.

regards.

jamus

 

[DaSmee]

This is almost exactly what I need for a task I have outstanding, the only difference is that I wish to copy a particular file out to a specifed sub-folder level on a group of users personal drives.

Example:

I have a file called file.txt on the root of D:\ and I wish to copy it into the App folder of all users D:\username\app folders, where I have around 200 Username folders.

So it looks a bit like this:

D:\user1\app
D:\user2\app
D:\user3\app

and the final complication is, that if the file already exists, it shouldn't overwrite it!

Can this FOR command be adjusted to do this?

Regards
Nigel Smee

 

[richgill]

It should work for that. If you run the batch file in the root of D: then you probably want something like

for /f %%i in ('dir /ad /b') do if not exist d:\%%i\app\file.txt copy file.txt d:\%%i\app

I haven't tested this so you may need to play around with it to get it working.

 

[DaSmee]

That's great, many thanks ...