Exclude file types in dircopy

[grunewald6]

Is there a way to exclude certain filetypes in a dir copy? For example, excluding .mpg or .mp3 files when copying My Docs? TIA

[Authenticity]

Don't think so, but you can code different file copy. For example, you can recursively build an array of files and keep out files with .mpg extension and copy them all, one by one.

[SmOke_N]

xcopy has an EXCLUDE feature, run this to see your command line options:

Run(@ComSpec & " /k xcopy /?", "", @SW_SHOW)

[maqleod]

Is there a way to exclude certain filetypes in a dir copy? For example, excluding .mpg or .mp3 files when copying My Docs? TIA

something like:

#Include <File.au3>
$yourpath = "C:\"
$dest = "E:\"
$files = _FileListToArray($yourpath,'*.*',1)
for $i = 1 to $files[0]
if StringRight($files[$i],3) <> "mpg" then ;don't copy files with .mpg extension
FileCopy($yourpath & $files[$i], $dest & $files[$i],1)
endif
next

Edited April 4, 2009 by maqleod

[zfisherdrums]

Is there a way to exclude certain filetypes in a dir copy? For example, excluding .mpg or .mp3 files when copying My Docs? TIA

Try good ol' xcopy with the EXCLUDE option set. It is a DOS command that should handle all the heavy lifting for you. For example,:

xcopy "c:\source" "c:\destination" /EXCLUDE:excludes.txt

where excludes.txt contains the following entry:

.mp3

This would copy all files from "c:\source" to "c:\destination", but would exclude all files with extensions matching ".mp3". You could wrap this call inside of the _RunDos UDF.

For more info on xcopy, check here or open a DOS console and enter 'xcopy /?'. Hope this helps!

Zach...

EDIT: corrected misuse of argument.

Edited April 4, 2009 by zfisherdrums

[grunewald6]

Thanks, guys. Xcopy seems to be the way to go. I miss the forest for the trees sometimes - forgetting DOS and always looking for an autoit command. Thanks again!