Question

[copelandtml]

At the command prompt, enter a Single Command that will rename the file ALPHABET.TXT in the C:\MYFILES directory to ABC.TXT--------------how would i go about doing that?

[root]

move alphabet.txt c:\myfiles\abc.txt

put that in a batch file and call it abcmove.bat

[copelandtml]

Thanks a lot, would you mind explaining how to perform a few other tasks inside the command prompt. New to programming, if you don't have the time i'll just keep playing around.

1------At the command prompt, enter a Single Command that will MARK the file HIDEME.TXT as a HIDDEN, and READONLY file.(The file is in the C:\MYFILES directory)

2------At the command prompt, enter a Single Command that will move the files FILE1.TXT, FILE2.TXT and FILE3.TXT from the C:\MYFILES directory to the C:\MYFILES\DATA directory.NOTE: You may use * wildcard in this command.

3------At the command prompt, enter a Single Command that will move the files FILE1.TXT, FILE2.TXT and FILE3.TXT from the C:\MYFILES directory to the C:\MYFILES\DATA directory.NOTE: You may use * wildcard in this command.

4------At the command prompt, enter a Single Command that will satisfy all of the following criteria:
Copy the contents of the C:\MYFILES directory into a directory called C:\BACKUP\MYFILES
Include all the subdirectories, including the empty ones
Copies all files, including hidden and system files
Display the source and destination filenames while copying

[root]

it really depends what you want to do in the command prompt.

there is a ton of stuff that you *can* do, but it's all pretty useless if you have no application for doing those things.

basically, you're just running programs from the command line, that could either start a graphical interface, or it could send back a line or a screen of text.

for example, you type dir and a list of the files in the current directory comes back.

type copy (file) (destination) and you copy a file that you specify to a destination
type move (file) (destination and you move a file

type tasklist and you get a list of running processes.


what other tasks do you have in mind?

[copelandtml]

Yeah, I've been learning some of the commands in the prompt, prof kinda jumped a few steps. I'm just playing around trying to figure stuff out, the code needs to be perfect to run, gets a little frustrating. The following are the other tasks I'm trying to figure out.

1------At the command prompt, enter a Single Command that will MARK the file HIDEME.TXT as a HIDDEN, and READONLY file.(The file is in the C:\MYFILES directory)

2------At the command prompt, enter a Single Command that will move the files FILE1.TXT, FILE2.TXT and FILE3.TXT from the C:\MYFILES directory to the C:\MYFILES\DATA directory.NOTE: You may use * wildcard in this command.

3------At the command prompt, enter a Single Command that will move the files FILE1.TXT, FILE2.TXT and FILE3.TXT from the C:\MYFILES directory to the C:\MYFILES\DATA directory.NOTE: You may use * wildcard in this command.

4------At the command prompt, enter a Single Command that will satisfy all of the following criteria:
Copy the contents of the C:\MYFILES directory into a directory called C:\BACKUP\MYFILES
Include all the subdirectories, including the empty ones
Copies all files, including hidden and system files
Display the source and destination filenames while copying

[berry120]

For 1), have a look at the attrib command. The others you should be able to find pretty easily with a bit of research.

[root]

yes, the attrib command, attrib -a to set the archive bit.
attrib -h to hide
attrib -r to set to read only.

if your at a directory (c:\myfiles) you could type move c:\myfiles* c:\yourfiles and it'll move everything.

you could use the * wild card but that's a broad wildcard .

say you have files
file1.txt
file2.txt
file3.txt
file1.bmp
file1-copy.txt
readme.txt

if you type copy * it'll copy all the text files
if you type copy *.txt it'll copy all the text files
if you type copy file*.txt file it'll copy all the files that are text files where the file name starts text. (file1.txt, file2.txt, file3.txt file1-copy.txt)

if you type copy file?.txt it'll copy all the text files that are text where the file name starts with file, then has one charecter then a dot and txt (file1.txt, file2.txt, file3.txt)

you could use copy file[0-9].txt and it'll copy all files where the name starts file, then has a character in the range 0 - 9 and has a .txt file extension.


for the last one. check out xcopy...

at the command line type xcopy /? and you;ll see all the options.