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I need to copy a file x.dtsx from location a to location b.
If x.dtsx already exists in b then I need to rename x.dtsx to x_Standby.dtsx Then, after renaming copy x.dtsx to b
My current code looks like this:
if exists %1 rename %1 %(should be 1_standy.extension)
xcopy %1 %2
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For simple batch files, a single character such as %%f will work. You can use multiple values for variable in complex batch files to distinguish different replaceable variables.
The dir command displays a list of files and subdirectories in a directory. With the /S option, it recurses subdirectories and lists their contents as well.
/W - Displays only filenames and directory names (without the added information about each file) in a five-wide display format. dir c:*. This form of the DIR command will also display directories. They can be identified by the DIR label that follows the directory name.
Using Bash, there's also ${file%. *} to get the filename without the extension and ${file##*.} to get the extension alone. That is, file="thisfile.
If you use the Command Processor Extensions (which is default on Windows 2000 and later) then you can use the following optional syntax:
%~1 - expands %1 removing any surrounding quotes (")
%~f1 - expands %1 to a fully qualified path name
%~d1 - expands %1 to a drive letter only
%~p1 - expands %1 to a path only
%~n1 - expands %1 to a file name only
%~x1 - expands %1 to a file extension only
%~s1 - expanded path contains short names only
%~a1 - expands %1 to file attributes
%~t1 - expands %1 to date/time of file
%~z1 - expands %1 to size of file
The modifiers can be combined to get compound results:
%~dp1 - expands %1 to a drive letter and path only
%~nx1 - expands %1 to a file name and extension only
So your command would look something like this:
if exist %2\%~nx1 ren %2\%~nx1 %~n1_standby%~x1
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