I am using robocopy in a batch file to copy everything from the directory where the batch file is run, to a destination folder like so:
robocopy %~dp0 "D:\Destination Folder" /E In the command window, running the above outputs the full path to %~dp0 like this:
C:\Folder\Another Folder\Batch File Runs From This Folder\This Folder Gets Copied\File.txt I want the above output to exclude all of the folders leading up to the one where the batch file runs from, in other words exclude only %~dp0 but retain the rest of the path so I can see what was copied, so it would end up only outputting this:
This Folder Gets Copied\File.txt There are no options in Robocopy to do this and I have looked at things like find.exe and findstr.exe but they cannot exclude a portion of a line, those both only have a /v option that can hide lines containing the text you specify. That's no use since hiding %~dp0 would hide the entire line and show no output.
I know if there's a way to do this I can just put a pipe at the end of the robocopy line with something like this, if such a thing like a "hidestring" application exists:
robocopy %~dp0 "D:\Destination Folder" /E | hidestring %~dp0 That is just an example of how it might work, but like I said there is no such program "hidestring" - I wish there was!
Robocopy does have a /LEV:n option where n is the amount of directory levels deep you want to copy, but using that option has no bearing on the output, the full path including %~dp0 is output.
Is there any way to do this?
Cheers folks.
EDIT: @Jeff Zietlin, here's the full content of the command window:
C:\Folder\ToBeCopied>robocopy C:\Folder\ToBeCopied\ "D:\Destination" /E /w:0 /r:0 /NP /NS /NDL /NJH /NJS /XX New File C:\Folder\ToBeCopied\Copy Current Directory.bat New File C:\Folder\ToBeCopied\Folder With File\File.txt C:\Folder\ToBeCopied>pause Press any key to continue . . . Where the above says this:
New File C:\Folder\ToBeCopied\Copy Current Directory.bat New File C:\Folder\ToBeCopied\Folder With File\File.txt I want it to just say this:
New File ToBeCopied\Copy Current Directory.bat New File ToBeCopied\Folder With File\File.txt In other words, do not display the current directory's path C:\Folder (aka %~dp0)
EDIT 2:
Jeff, if I run this in a batch file called Copy Current Directory.bat
pushd %~dp0 robocopy . "D:\Destination" /E popd pause I get this in the command window:
C:\Folder\ToBeCopied>pushd C:\Folder\ToBeCopied\ C:\Folder\ToBeCopied>robocopy . "D:\Destination" /E ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ROBOCOPY :: Robust File Copy for Windows ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Started : 11 June 2021 17:13:45 Source : C:\Folder\ToBeCopied\ Dest : D:\Destination\ Files : *.* Options : *.* /S /E /DCOPY:DA /COPY:DAT /R:1000000 /W:30 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1 C:\Folder\ToBeCopied\ 100% New File 167 Copy Current Directory.bat New Dir 1 C:\Folder\ToBeCopied\Folder With File\ 100% New File 0 File.txt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Total Copied Skipped Mismatch FAILED Extras Dirs : 2 1 1 0 0 0 Files : 2 2 0 0 0 0 Bytes : 167 167 0 0 0 0 Times : 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:00:00 Ended : 11 June 2021 17:13:45 C:\Folder\ToBeCopied>popd C:\Folder\ToBeCopied>pause Press any key to continue . . . 1 Answer
Instead of using %~dp0 directly in the ROBOCOPY command, use
... pushd %~dp0 ROBOCOPY . "D:\Destination Folder" /E popd ... When I do that, the filename lines from ROBOCOPY look like e.g.,
100% New File 800 Esperanto.ahk 100% New File 644 Sharp-S.ahk 100% New File 473 Sharp-S2.ahk with no path, which seems to be what you want.
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