how to get/strip the name a batch directory

Question

i want to raname files in a dir based on the name of containing dir. like c:\bin\data01\foo.txt to c:\bin\data01\data01.txt

following http://stackoverflow.com/questions/659647/how-to-get-folder-path-from-file-path-with-cmd

Answer 1

What happens if there are multiple files in the same directory ?

Answer 2

Microsoft has a good Batch Reference that explains how you can do a for loop to tokenize a file path and pull out the directory name...

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

If you have a file that contains a list of files, tmp.txt...

c:\temp\folder\foo.txt

you can parse those filenames in batch with...

for /F "delims=\ tokens=1,2,3" %%i in (tmp.txt) do call echo %%i %%k %%j

and that produces...

%%i = c: 
%%j = temp
%%k = folder

after that you can use the variable that matches the directory name as the filename in your copy. However, this that only works if all the paths are the same depth.