I am planning to create some kind of archive. Suppose I have these set of folders a = {A, B, C, D} And I have another collection of folders like b = {1, 2, 3, 4}
Now, how I can create folders using a .bat file such that every folder in "a" has the "b" folders. Meaning that every folder in "a" should have "1, 2, 3, 4" as sub folders.
I tried to do something using xcopy but it did not work.
This works for me on windows 7:
for %%a in (A,B,C,D) do ( for %%i in (1,2,3,4) do ( mkdir %%a\\%%i ) ) To answer your question about a more general script; put this into a batch file such as a.bat and run that.
@echo off rem the directory where I wish to make subdirectories set mypath=C:\Users\Philip\AppData\Local\Temp\Test rem go to that directory cd /d %mypath% rem the names of subdirectories I want to create for each directory (no outer quotes) set mydirs=ralph,john,sally,betty,11,22 for /f %%a in ('dir/b/ad') do ( for %%i in (%mydirs%) do ( if not exist %%a\\%%i ( mkdir %%a\\%%i ) ) ) If you want only a subset of directories you can change the outer for to use wildcards. E.g. only directories that start with C
for /f %%a in ('dir/b/ad C*') do ( 
