Question

i have an edited version of a config file specific for my machine.
i have the same config file in multiple different directories in my development folder.
i want to, in a single bat file, replace all instances of this file with my edited one.

So in pusedo code:
Take C:\edited.config and copy to C:\Projects\ /s wherever original.config is found

i want the final file to have the name of original.config, not edited.config

so i am guessing i need some combination of a FOR, a rename and copy or something like that

is this easier to do in Powershell?

can anybody help?
Thanks

Answer 1

I blogged about this a little bit ago at http://jamesewelch.com/2008/05/01/how-to-write-a-dos-batch-file-to-loop-through-files/

I think your solution will look something similar to (below is untested but used to show general idea)

for /f %%a IN ('dir /b *.config') do copy c:\master.config %%a

There’s probably a switch there on the copy to suppress file overwrite warnings, but I don’t remember what the switch is. This will copy your master.config and overwrite your local file (variable of %%a).