simple .bat copy that i can't do!!

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aftermarket · #1 Post by **aftermarket** » 04 Mar 2009 11:33

hi people,

i have a folder that has downloaded films in e\finished downloading when a film downloads it creates a folder within this folder. what i am trying to do is move .avi files that are bigger then say 400 mb in the e;\films folder. i only want to copy the .avi file and not the whole folder. once it has been copied i want the bat file to delete the folder the film came from. any ideas?

thank you

avery_larry · #2 Post by **avery_larry** » 19 Mar 2009 10:30

UNTESTED:

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@echo off

cd /d "e:\finished downloading\somedir"
for %%a in (*.avi) do (
   if %%~za GTR 400000000 move "%%a" e:\films
)
rd /s /q "e:\finished downloading\somedir"

*SCRIPTER* · #3 Post by ***SCRIPTER*** » 19 Mar 2009 15:37

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aftermarket · #4 Post by **aftermarket** » 21 Mar 2009 17:49

your a star!!

aftermarket · #5 Post by **aftermarket** » 10 May 2009 10:20

tried the code today but it didn't work! it deletes everything in the finished directory but doesn't copy anything to the film dir. any ideas?

thanks

avery_larry · #6 Post by **avery_larry** » 11 May 2009 14:12

Hmm . . . Should have thought of this -- are those .avi files larger than ~2 Gb? The if GTR command will choke around 2Gb.

Otherwise, the code seems to test OK. Should have added a cd command to get out of the dir that you're trying to delete:

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@echo off 

cd /d "e:\finished downloading\somedir" 
for %%a in (*.avi) do ( 
   if %%~za GTR 400000000 move "%%a" e:\films 
)
cd ..
rd /s /q "e:\finished downloading\somedir"

If you're going larger than 2Gb, then we would do this:

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@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
cd /d "e:\finished downloading\somedir" 
for %%a in (*.avi) do (
   set fsize=%%~za
   if defined fsize call set "fsize=%%fsize:~0,-8%%"
   if 1!fsize! GEQ 14 move "%%a" e:\films
)
cd ..
rd /s /q "e:\finished downloading\somedir"