Recursive file copy and rename on the Vista command line

Question

I'm trying to recurse through my music directory and copy every file called folder.jpg to a file in the same directory called cover.jpg.

I've tried variations of suggestions in this question such as this:

for /r %i in (folder.jpg) do copy %i cover.jpg

Resulting in "The system cannot find the file specified."

How can solve this problem?

Edit

Here's what I ended up going with:

for /r %i in (folder.jpg) do copy "%i" "%~picover.jpg"

Answer 1

You probably don't have any files in your music folder called folder.jpg so it fails right?

I tried this in mymusic folder with a dummy file called folder.jpg and it copied it normally. ;)

Edit:

Kishi is right, you are missing the double quotes on the second %i

Answer 2

You are missing double-quotes on the copy command.

The %i variable will be holding the full-path to the file -- which may contain spaces. Try using:

for /r %i in (folder.jpg) do copy "%i" cover.jpg

Answer 3

You could just use xcopy with the /s flag...

EDIT: My bad - didn't read the question properly. Xcopy with /s will help when just copying the files to a fixed destination.

Answer 4

Try this:

for /f "usebackq delims==" %I in (`dir /b /s ^| findstr folder.jpg`) do copy "%I" "%~pIcover.jpg"

Decoder Ring:

usebackq :: run the command in the backquotes and use the output as the input for the loop
delims== :: use the equal sign as a delimeter. Really you could use any character that isn't valid in a file name
dir /b /s :: do a recursive directory listing only outputting the bare file names
^| :: ^ escapes the pipe character, the pipe - well pipes the output from the first command to the second
findstr :: searches the input for matching lines, and only outputs them
%~pI :: the tilde p instructs the variable expansion to only output the path rather than full file name + path. Note, this includes a trailing \

I hope this helps!

Answer 5

PowerShell must replace CMD. It is inevitable and righteous. And it's my job to help it along...

gci -r . folder.jpg | % { copy $_.FullName ([IO.Path]::Combine( $_.Directory.FullName, "cover.jpg" )) }