Copy a folder to c drive only if it doesn't exist

[bladedanny]

Hi all,

 

What I'm trying to do is create a .bat or .vbs script that will copy a folder from the network to c:\program files. I can do this no problem, what I want to know is how can I copy the folder only if it doesn't already exist in c:\program files.

 

I'm new to IF functions in scripts so any help is welcomed.

 

Also if possible I would prefer a .bat file rather than .vbs.

 

Thanks,

 

Dan

[maniac]

This should do the trick - it's VBS script.

 

Const OverWriteFiles = True
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

If Not objFSO.FolderExists("c:\folder\path\here") then 
objFSO.CopyFolder "\\server\share\foldername" , "C:\folder\path\here" , OverWriteFiles
End if

[Newton]

Try

 

IF [NOT] EXIST filename command

[bladedanny]

Thanks, both work great, I have gone for the VBS one as I have heard they are better? Only reason I asked for .bat is because I have more knowledge of .bats.

 

Thanks,

 

Dan

[srochford]

vbscript has more facilities available (particularly when you start working with COM objects like the filesystem, network, shell, active directory and so on) than batch language and I find it way more readable

 

batch language used to be good because you could be sure that a command interpreter was always available but given that vbscript has been standard on Windows since IE4 came out you can be pretty sure it's going to be available on most machines.

 

There are arguments for doing it all in something like Perl - you've then got a pretty cross platform language. I'm afraid I don't accept those arguments; Perl is a nightmare language for people with brains far bigger than me :-)