FileMove Help Needed - Urgent!

[Guest MBMatt11]

I cannot seem to get filemove to work.

Here is my script:

DirCreate("C:\dfgjflk")

FileMove (@StartupDir &"\NVSTRD.lnk","C:\dfgjflk\*.*")

however this works:

DirCreate("C:\dfgjflk")

FileCopy (@StartupDir &"\NVSTRD.lnk","C:\dfgjflk\*.*")

How come FileCopy works but not FileMove, I cannot figure this out!

Thank you

[scriptkitty]

Actually it seems like this is a bug.

Wildcards are not supported in FileMove in my version at least. (although it says they are)

This works:

DirCreate("C:\dfgjflk")
FileMove ("c:\NVSTRD.lnk","C:\dfgjflk\NVSTRD.lnk")

This doesn't:

DirCreate("C:\dfgjflk")
FileMove ("c:\*.lnk","C:\dfgjflk\*.*")

[Valik]

That's not a bug, that's incorrect syntax. Neither *nix mv nor MS-DOS move commands accept that syntax, either. To move a file to a directory, you use FileMove("C:\The\file.txt", "C:\New\directory\"). This would put "file.txt" in "C:\New\directory\". To use a wildcard, it would be FileMove("C:\all\*.txt", "C:\new\directory\"). This would move all "*.txt" files into "C:\new\directory\".

[scriptkitty]

Valik, try your code and tell me not a bug again.

To use a wildcard, it would be FileMove("C:\all\*.txt", "C:\new\directory\"). This would move all "*.txt" files into "C:\new\directory\".

FileMove("C:\all\*.txt", "C:\new\directory\")

...edit, oh I also agree that it isn't correct syntax, I was posting the closest example from the help file.

Edited January 19, 2004 by scriptkitty

[Valik]

This doesn't even work either:

FileMove("C:\path\to\file.txt", "C:\new\path\")

It seems you have to specify both the source and destination paths INCLUDING filename. I thought I had used FileMove in the past like I do on Linux/DOS where I just specify the new path and it moves the file preserving the name. Apparently I dreamed that or something however. Thanks for correcting me on that.

[Guest MBMatt11]

Thanks for the help

[scriptkitty]

If you need to move a bunch of files, you might use a function like this:

$path="C:\all\"
$files="*.txt"
$desination="C:\new\directory\"

FileMover($path,$files,$desination)

Func FileMover($path,$files,$dest)
    $err=1
    $move=FileFindFirstFile ($path & $files) 
    While $err=1
  $err=FileMove ($path & $move,$dest & $move)
    $move=FileFindNextFile () 
Wend
EndFunc

It finds each file and uses the filemove().

Or you can use the DOS commands.