How do i copy 2 files at once

[goodbyeplanet]

I know how to use FileCopy to copy a single file from the current directory to another directory but how do i do it when i want to copy two files at once using a single line. for example how can i come up with a single line of code instead of 2 statements like below:

FileCopy("C:\old\file1.exe", "C:\new\")

FileCopy("C:\old\file2.exe", "C:\new\")

[water]

Why do you want to do it in a single line? Any problems with two lines?

Maybe you can use wildcards.

FileCopy("C:\old\file*.exe", "C:\new\")

Edited October 18, 2010 by water

[goodbyeplanet]

Why do you want to do it in a single line? Any problems with two lines?

Maybe you can use wildcards.

Edited October 18, 2010 by goodbyeplanet

[water]

well hv been just trying to make things as simple as possible since it seems i will be copying and moving lots of files. so i thought if there was a way that would at least keep the code clean and not come up with a myriad of lines....

unfortunately them wiildcards aint working too

How do you get the filenames into your script?

You could fill an array (read the list of files from an ini file, scan through the directory using FileFindFirstFile/FileFindNextFile etc.) and then copy them in a loop.

[GEOSoft]

Put the files into an array and then loop through the array.

#Include<"file.au3">
$sPath = "C"\old\"
$aFiles = _FileListToArray($sPath, "*.exe", 1) ;; << See the help file
If NOT @Error Then
    For $i = 1 To UBound($aFiles) -1
        If FileCopy($sPath & $aFiles[$i], "C:\New\" & $aFiles[$i], 9) = 0 Then ContinueLoop;; See the help file for the flags
    Next
EndIf

Also the example for FileCopy using wild cards should work for you.

FileCopy("C:\old\*.*", "C:\new\", 9)

[goodbyeplanet]

you are so so sweet all of you..without this forum i wouldnt have made the progress i have made since morning..thanks it seems the array method stands to be the best, the wild card method for some reason skips some files....anywayz thanks again wonderful people

Edited October 18, 2010 by goodbyeplanet

[water]

The wildcard method should not skip any files - if the wildcard is set properly.

[goodbyeplanet]

The wildcard method should not skip any files - if the wildcard is set properly.

ok to be exact I have these files:

france.exe

france_leys.exe

I tried the wildcard method like this, FileCopy("france*.exe", "C:\new\") but it only copied the first one (france and left the other). One thing that i didnt state is that I also wouldnt want to copy all the files in the folder since there are some which i definitely dont want to be copied an dthat means a wildcard like this, FileCopy("*.exe", "C:\new\") or FileCopy("*.*", "C:\new\") would not be useful for me...

[water]

This code works fine for me. It creates a new directory if necessary and copies the files from the current directory.

As result 1-0-0 is displayed. Could you please test it in your environment?

$R = FileCopy("france*.exe","C:\new\",9)
ConsoleWrite($R & "-" & @error & "-" & @extended & @CRLF)

Edited October 18, 2010 by water

[goodbyeplanet]

This code works fine for me. It creates a new directory if necessary and copies the files from the current directory.

As result 1-0-0 is displayed. Could you please test it in your environment?

$R = FileCopy("france*.exe","C:\new\",9)
ConsoleWrite($R & "-" & @error & "-" & @extended & @CRLF)

oops Water, i feel a bit embarrassed here. Now its working exactly as u said I dont know why it only copied a single file before, probably its because i was working with a lot of code and i lost overview of what was happening..yes thanks again and that means i wil be much more comfortable with the wild card method instead of arraying. since it automatically creates a directory is it necessary for me to specify the DirCreate("C:\new\") before the code. here is my code:

DirCreate("C:\new\")
if @error Then exit     

FileCopy("france*.exe", "C:\new\")

Edited October 18, 2010 by goodbyeplanet

[water]

Here is my code:

DirCreate("C:\new\")
if @error Then exit     
FileCopy("france*.exe", "C:\new\")

Don't forget to check the returncode of FileCopy as well!

It is good programming practive to do some error checking after commands that might fail.

In your case the disk could run out of free space, some file attributes can make the overwriting impossible (according to the help filet) etc.

[GEOSoft]

Using the flag 9 (or 8) you don't have to create the folder in advance but it never hurts to do so. As I said above, read the help file to see what the flags are. Also, you could have still used the array method by making the same wildcard change in the second parameter of _FileListToArray() but the straight file copy works just as well.

[bahtea]

Why does this not work?

$CopyThese = "C:\Temp\Willow.m3u" & "C:\Temp\Yellow.fpl"
FileCopy($CopyThese, "D:\MMM\", 8)

Nothing gets copied; only the D:\MMM folder's created.

Edited October 28, 2010 by bahtea

[Melba23]

bahtea,

First, please do not hijack threads.

Second, FileCopy needs a single valid file path_name as a "source" parameter - what you are doing is passing it a combination (concatenation) of 2 such path_names. No wonder it gets confused!

If you have a number of files to deal with, put them in an array and then loop through the array passing each one in turn.

All clear?

M23

[bahtea]

Sorry. I had no intention of hijacking. Since the topic is on "How do i copy 2 files at once" I had hoped that the kind of variable assigning I had done would be feasible. Partly because I was thinking of verifying later on the presence of the files being copied making use of such a variable.

Yours is good advice, M23: I'll have to study the array aspect.

Quite clear now on "FileCopy needs a single valid file path_name". Thanks.

[Varian]

I'm thinking you would have to run separate instances to copy 2 or more files at once. 2 or more scripts or 2 or more DOS copy calls (or some other copy operation)