Batch copy and edit application?

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 19:45:16 Post Subject: Batch copy and edit application?

The website has old files that need to be updated and I am looking for a quick and easy way. I need to do two things.

1. There are numerous old folders that among their different contents all have the same file in them that needs to be replaced. Is there a quick way to copy one new file and have it dropped into dozens folders at once to replace what is already there?

2. There are also a variety of files in these folders that have the same name, and have the same basic content, but some variables. Is there a way to do a batch "replace all" inside these files to update select content?

Confused

knight0334 · Posted: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:11:14 Post Subject:

XCOPY command is your friend.

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/xcopy.mspx?mfr=true

You can do most, if not all of that with XCOPY. For each directory you would have to copy on individual command lines.

Our old cable tv database had several directories, with many files in each.. sometimes named the same, but the extention changed ( .001 or .002 or .099 etc). WinXP wouldn't recognize the RAID controller of a mobo we had for the server, so I used a batch file to XCOPY the data across (2) HDDs with (4) partitions each. One partition was the actual daily used database, one was daily backup, another was a bi-weekly, another was a monthly. It'd make it's timed backup at 3-4am, then mirror to the other drive as soon as the backup was made.

BeerCheeze · Posted: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:09:58 Post Subject:

I'm guessing this is Linux and not Windows. Maybe you can script something with like rsync?

knight0334 · Posted: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:29:46 Post Subject:

Hmm.. if it is Linux, nevermind my post. lol

Blue|Fusion · Posted: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:39:56 Post Subject:

1. You can make a script to use rsync on all of the directories. Something like this:

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:41:51 Post Subject:

I hope I can figure out the options presented on item 1. - thanks.

I got 2. solved with an app I already had. This HTML editing app allowed me to open all 165 files and do a find / replace all to make my updates.

Now to get the one file copied into the dozens of folders.

Oh, and it is Windows. I downloaded everything to home in order to make the changes.