From: hobby.tl@langer-online.net.invalid   
      
   You are welcome.   
      
      
   Am 22.11.2021 um 00:22 schrieb John Stockton:   
   > On Sunday, 21 November 2021 at 08:13:50 UTC, LangerTom wrote:   
   >> Am 17.11.2021 um 00:44 schrieb John Stockton:   
   >>> On Friday, 12 November 2021 at 00:46:22 UTC, LangerTom wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   >> I found a solution for your problem, that ist very much simpler, smaller   
   >> and faster than my last suggestion.   
   >>   
   >> Try:   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> FOR /F "eol=; tokens=*" %%J IN (ZZZ\ZZZZ.TXT) DO (   
   >> Xcopy /F %%J ZZZ\%%J\..\   
   >> )   
   >>   
   >> This syntax addresses the path part only of your fully qualified   
   >> file name ZZZ\%%J and adds the trailing back space missing   
   >>   
   >> .. is the representation of the parent part of a path and works on file   
   >> names in fully qualified file names too.   
   >>   
   >> cd ..\.. will move upward two levels in a directory structure   
   >   
   >   
   > It has taken a genius to think of something which is   
   > perfectly obvious in hindsight!  It worked immediately;   
   > but it put too much on the console, so I now have   
   >   
   > @FOR /F "eol=; tokens=*" %%J IN (ZZZ\ZZZZ.TXT) DO @(   
   > @echo     copy   MYSLIDES\%%J  to  MYSLIDES\ZZZ\%%J   
   > @Xcopy %%J ZZZ\%%J\..\ > nul   
   > )   
   >   
   > which gives just the echoed line for each file copied.   
   > It does give more if the apparent source file does not   
   > exist; but that will not happen when I have completed   
   > a recalcitrant piece of the preceding coding.   
   >   
   > Thanks,   
   >   
      
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