BAT file 'for each' command

Mr. Flibble

I want to copy every text file from one directory to another then delete all the files in the original directory
This will do it:
copy "E:\dirA\*.txt" "E:\dirB\"
del "E:\dirA\*.txt"

but if any .txt files get put into dirA between the two commands then they will be lost as they wouldn't be copied.
So I really need to copy and delete them one at a time. Anyone have any ideas how to go about doing that?

carveone

Mr. Flibble wrote: »

I want to copy every text file from one directory to another then delete all the files in the original directory
This will do it:
copy "E:\dirA\*.txt" "E:\dirB\"
del "E:\dirA\*.txt"

but if any .txt files get put into dirA between the two commands then they will be lost as they wouldn't be copied.
So I really need to copy and delete them one at a time. Anyone have any ideas how to go about doing that?

Windows XP has extended the batch file command set rather but...
The old way would be:

cd e:\dirA
for %a in (*.txt) do c:\temp\copydel %a e:\dirB

and then have a batch file called copydel.bat that takes two
arguments etc etc...

Or just use "move"!!!

move e:\dira\*.txt e:\dirb

Conor.

Mr. Flibble

Cheers carveone. I was copying over different drives so I just presumed move would copy them. But it does delete the old files too, so that works great. Thanks.