Automate a repetitive process in Windows

KingL

DoaM wrote: »

Did you edit the BAT file to remove the ECHO statements?

err, no. I assumed that was a second stage to speed things up once the first stage was proven. /my bad

..working now. Thanks everso

DoaM

The ECHO was to display on screen what was intended to happen. Once that proved that the intent was correct, removing the ECHO and running the BAT again would actually do it.

KingL

I see. :doh:

I really should learn how to do this !!!! myself.

Any recommended (easy start) tutor websites? I did some BASIC programming in the 1980s (so am OK with the principles of loops, subroutines and the like), but am otherwise clueless. Or should I be looking at Python, instead..?

keith969

This is one area where it might be easier to write a bash script and run under a Windows 10 bash shell, rather than learn the almost impenetrable weirdness that harks back to ms-dos

grumpycrab

keith969 wrote: »

This is one area where it might be easier to write a bash script ... rather than learn the almost impenetrable weirdness that harks back to ms-dos [batch file]

UNIX bash script vs. ms-dos batch file. FIGHT!

Stompa

Maybe?

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/auto-create-folder-move-files-into-it-with-files-2-folder

or:

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/19707/quickly-copy-movie-files-to-individually-named-folders/

(Note that I've not tried either of them)