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batch script to find a particular folder in a drive

hi ,am a newbie to the batch script, i have many folders called LIB in my drive say it can be as LIB_data,lib,lib_ac anything that starts with lib or LIB... i want to list all these directories and sort them in which they have created in the pc and copy the latest directory contents to BATCH_LATEST_LIB_FILES folder,that will be a new folder created by this batch file.i want this new folder to be created in the path where this batch file is present. please help me with a batch script.

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You might look at FOR, DATE, TIME, SORT, IF, GOTO and XCOPY.

This site is a great resource for batch files.

JRL  2009-11-30 13:15:39

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