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DOS COPY the first file in a directory

Answer 1

A:

Define first: Sorted by date? By name?

Esteban Araya 2009-07-07 21:14:46

Define what first ?

Murtaza RC 2009-07-07 21:15:37

does not matter any sorting is fine.

Murtaza RC 2009-07-07 21:16:14

He is asking what you mean by "First". First file when they are sorted by date? or first when sorted alphabetically?

John T 2009-07-07 21:16:32

As I mentioned the order does not matter.

Murtaza RC 2009-07-07 21:17:17

Answer 2

+4 A:

This will copy "the first .rar" file found" (randomly selected, for all I know) in the current folder to C:\Temp. I'd consider this to be a template you can start with.

@ECHO OFF
CLS

FOR %%A in (*.rar) do (
   COPY %%A  C:\temp
   GOTO :Exit
)

:Exit

Philip Kelley 2009-07-07 21:46:57

How is a random file the first file? :)

Esteban Araya 2009-07-07 23:21:41

Technically, it is not random. However, since (with this particular script) we have no real control over what file is the first file listed by the OS, we can assume nothing about which file will be the first returned, so it might as well be random.

Philip Kelley 2009-07-08 13:44:27

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