Question

Good afternoon, I wish to have a script that will look for all files with the name pattern LCP-??? and/or FSA-??? in c:\streetweeper and copy them to D:\java\temp\sz-files.
This script will run on startup.

I found a vbscript which has very similar functionality yet it uses a text file to read the files which need to be copied. can anyone help me transform this script to function as described above?

thanks for your time, the script is below:

Option Explicit

'The source path for the copy operation.
Const strSourceFolder = "c:\streetweeper"

'The target path for the copy operation.
Const strTargetFolder = "D:\java\temp\sz-files"

'The list of files to copy. Should be a text file with one file on each row. No paths -    just file name.
Const strFileList = "C:\filelist.txt"

'Should files be overwriten if they already exist? TRUE or FALSE.
Const blnOverwrite = FALSE

Dim objFSO
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

Const ForReading = 1
Dim objFileList
Set objFileList = objFSO.OpenTextFile(strFileList, ForReading, False)

Dim strFileToCopy, strSourceFilePath, strTargetFilePath
On Error Resume Next
Do Until objFileList.AtEndOfStream
'Read next line from file list and build filepaths
strFileToCopy = objFileList.Readline
strSourceFilePath = objFSO.BuildPath(strSourceFolder, strFileToCopy)
strTargetFilePath = objFSO.BuildPath(strTargetFolder, strFileToCopy)

'Copy file to specified target folder.
Err.Clear
objFSO.CopyFile strSourceFilePath, strTargetFilePath, blnOverwrite
If Err.Number = 0 Then
    'File copied successfully

Else
    'Error copying file
    Wscript.Echo "Error " & Err.Number & " (" & Err.Description & "). Copying " & strFileToCopy
End If
Loop

Answer 1

in copystuff.cmd

REM The following statement will have no effect if the directory does exist.
mkdir D:\java\temp\sz-files

XCOPY /Y /E c:\streetweeper\LCP-*.* D:\java\temp\sz-files

IF ERRORLEVEL 0 GOTO COPYNEXT
GOTO END

:COPYNEXT
XCOPY /Y /E c:\streetweeper\FSA-*.* D:\java\temp\sz-files

IF ERRORLEVEL 0 GOTO DELETEFILES
GOTO End

:DELETEFILES
DEL /Q LCP-*.*
DEL /Q FSA-*.*

:End

OR

REM The following statement will have no effect if the directory does exist.
mkdir D:\java\temp\sz-files

MOVE /Y C:\StreetSweeper\LCP-*.* D:\Java\Temp\sz-files
MOVE /Y C:\StreetSweeper\FSA-*.* D:\Java\Temp\sz-files

Stuff in the startup folder of your start menu and you’re good to go!