How to copy logs month wises

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Hello all,

I have a folder which has logs of past 1 year in it day wise. I want to copy this log in a new folders month wise. for example my january file should have all the logs of jan.
like that i want it to do for every month . can any body help me on this. Thanks in advance.

Posted 4-Jan-15 20:13pm

syedmas

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Peter Leow 5-Jan-15 2:32am

Show sample of log data.

syedmas 5-Jan-15 2:40am

its just a text files which gets generated day wise every day. like autologqwj.txt
i want to keep this files in a folder month wise

syedmas 5-Jan-15 2:42am

there is one folder which has 365 files which was generated everyday. now i want to move or copy this file into a folders month wise from jan to dec.

syedmas 5-Jan-15 4:09am

sir can you help on this.

Tomas Takac 5-Jan-15 4:28am

What have you tried? Where are you stuck? What about xcopy with /D parameter?

Richard MacCutchan 5-Jan-15 5:05am

You can use the %~tI option of the FOR command to get the date/time of the file. So you could use that to get a list of all the files for each month. It's just a matter of playing around with a batch script.

syedmas 5-Jan-15 7:01am

Robocopy "D:\Masood_Shared\Masood_Backup\Backend_logs\send 13-14\plan_begin" "D:\Masood_Shared\newfolder05jan14" *.* /MAXAGE:20141231 /MINAGE:20141201

syedmas 5-Jan-15 7:02am

i am trying to execute this but its not copying.is it because the plan_begin having subfolders again inside it ? or what i am trying run this in windows 7.

syedmas 5-Jan-15 7:56am

it is just copying the folders but it is not copying the files why is it? AM i missing any thing here?

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syedmas · Answer 1 · 2015-01-06T03:18:00

@echo off

:: Looping through the list for different folders

for /f %%a in (folderlist.txt) do (
echo %%a

@echo off
set "src=D:\folder\copyingfrom\%%a\Processing"
set "dest=D:\folder\copiedto\%%a\Processing\MonthWise"
for %%F in ("%src%\*") do (
for /f "tokens=1,2,3 delims=/ " %%A in ("%%~tF") do (
if not exist "%dest%\%%C_%%A" mkdir "%dest%\%%C_%%A"
::move "%%~fF" "%dest%\%%C_%%A"
xcopy /Y "%%~fF" "%dest%\%%C_%%A"
)
)
)