I have tried to find an answer to this but most questions related to robocopy and pattern matching are focused on excluding folders whereas my intention is to include folders.
Assuming i have the following folders.
c:\workspace\folder1\subfolder1\workInProgress monthly\*
c:\workspace\folder1\subfolder1\completed monthly\*
c:\workspace\folder1\subfolder1\rejected weekly\*
c:\workspace\folder2\subfolder2\workInProgress yearly\*
c:\workspace\folder2\workInProgress documents daily\*
c:\workspace\folder2\subfolder2\completed monthly\*
c:\workspace\folder2\subfolder21\rejected weekly\*
c:\workspace\folder3\subfolder3\workInProgress weekly\*
c:\workspace\folder3\subfolder3\completed daily\*
c:\workspace\folder3\subfolder3\rejected weekly\*
I have a backup script that executes the ROBOCOPY
command for each directory i want to backup.
ROBOCOPY "c:\workspace\folder1\subfolder1\workInProgress monthly" D:\folder1\subfolder1\workInProgress documents /COPYALL /B /SEC /E /MIR /Z /XO /XF *.LCK /R:5 /W:5 /LOG+:dSyncFilesMinimal_%vl%_%tl%.txt /IPG:5
ROBOCOPY "c:\workspace\folder2\subfolder2\workInProgress yearly" D:\folder2\subfolder1\workInProgress documents /COPYALL /B /SEC /E /MIR /Z /XO /XF *.LCK /R:5 /W:5 /LOG+:dSyncFilesMinimal_%vl%_%tl%.txt /IPG:5
ROBOCOPY "c:\workspace\folder2\workInProgress daily" D:\folder2\subfolder1\workInProgress documents /COPYALL /B /SEC /E /MIR /Z /XO /XF *.LCK /R:5 /W:5 /LOG+:dSyncFilesMinimal_%vl%_%tl%.txt /IPG:5
ROBOCOPY "c:\workspace\folder3\subfolder3\workInProgress weekly" D:\folder3\subfolder1\workInProgress documents /COPYALL /B /SEC /E /MIR /Z /XO /XF *.LCK /R:5 /W:5 /LOG+:dSyncFilesMinimal_%vl%_%tl%.txt /IPG:5
Everytime a new folder is added I have to update the script to include the new folder.
How can i use ROBOCOPY
to search the workspace
folder to find any directory that contains the string workInProgress
and copy it to a destination location.
Given that i know that the folder to be copied will have the string workInProgress
in its name, is it possible to run a single ROBOCOPY
command to recursively search the c:\workspace
directory and copy across any directory that matches the patter *workInProgress*
"
- Only folder with patter workInProgress
The
workInProgress
folders can contain different strings after the stringworkInProgress
e.gworkInProgress daily
workInprogress unknown
There is no known pattern on other folders that do not contain
workInProgress
in their name. Other folders can contain random names.