From: Zaidy036@air.isp.spam   
      
   On 10/26/2021 4:54 AM, Terry Pinnell wrote:   
   > Zaidy036  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 10/25/2021 5:07 AM, Terry Pinnell wrote:   
   >>> On this Win 10 PC I can use my backup application (SecondCopy) to copy a   
   folder   
   >>> and its entire contents. But all the source files have the extension   
   '.ino' and   
   >>> I want that changed to '.txt' for the copies, which SecondCopy cannot   
   achieve.   
   >>> (That will allow me to view them on my iPad with Dropbox, which cannot do   
   so   
   >>> despite their being plain text files.)   
   >>>   
   >>> Is it possible with a batch file please and if so I'd greatly appreciate a   
   >>> suggested file I can try please?   
   >>>   
   >>> Terry   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> I believe you can make a new folder if it does not exist already and   
   >> then use COPY and change the name at the same time. If there is a   
   >> problem do the copy without a name change and use RENAME.   
   >>   
   >> IF NOT EXIST  MKDIR    
   >> COPY /Y \*.ino \*.txt   
   >> -or-   
   >> COPY /Y \*.ino    
   >> REN \*.ino *.txt   
   >   
   > Thanks, I'll try that shortly. But are you fairly sure it will act   
   recursively   
   > on the files in all subfolders?   
   >   
   > I also looked at using the command prompt RENAME (after the successful copy),   
   > but cannot get my head around making it work on all subfolders.   
   >   
   > Terry   
   >   
      
   FORFILES does recursive using /S   
      
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