Robocopy is one of the world's great tools. If it doesn't quite meet your needs, I have a little vbscript helper script that might be of use. It will tell you what's in list 'a' but not list 'b' and it will tell you what's in list 'b' but not in list 'a'. Your batch file would have to capture a dir list for each of the directories you care about.. then it would run the "in-not-in" script and take actions accordingly.
mark, if you want to go this route, let me know... Mike. its<dot>mike<at>analogy<dot>ca From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 10:59 am To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Batch file task What actions do you need to do? Robocopy will watch folders and run forever.if you just need to do a copy of the contents or changes to those folders it will work for you. From: m b [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 1:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Batch file task I need to create a section of a batch file that will determine whether a folder has had files added to it or not, and then perform one of two actions. I was thinking of doing a dir > filename, to get something like dirlist.txt & oldlist.txt and doing a file compare on the two text files, but the "fc" command doesn't seem to give me any output I can use within the batch file. I was hoping it would give me something in "errorlevel", but it doesn't. In the end, I'll have a batch file that runs constantly, and each loop it will look at a couple of folders. If there's something in folder 1, it will perform action 1, and if there's something in folder 2, it will perform action 2. Thanks in advance Mark ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
