When copying/moving, appending " (2)" to filename when the target file already exist.

[dumbenis]

Question: When a filename in the target folder already exists, is there a simple solution, like appending "(2)" to the filename, before copying/moving the file to the target directory?

 

[samintz]

There is no easy solution. You could turn on clobber mode and COPY will prompt you before overwriting an existing file.
Otherwise you'll have to write a custom COPY script that checks for an existing file and formats a new name based on the existing name.
This isn't checked, but should be close. You'll probably need to do something with quotes too if there are any spaces.
CustomCopy.btm:

set dest=%2
iff ISFILE %dest then
  do i = 1 to 65535
    if ISFILE %@PATH[%2]%@NAME[%2](%i).%EXT[%2] ITERATE
    set dest=%@PATH[%2]%@NAME[%2](%i).%EXT[%2]
    LEAVE
  enddo
endiff
copy %1 %dest

 

[samintz]

A full blown COPY command would need to check for a destination directory, include lists, regular expressions, wild cards, etc. So an ideal solution would have to be done internally.

 

[RogerB]

Question: When a filename in the target folder already exists, is there a simple solution, like appending "(2)" to the filename, before copying/moving the file to the target directory?

Take a look at the @VERSION function in TCC help, I think it will do what you want. For example, if two directories DIR1 and DIR2 both contain a file called TESTFILE.TXT:

d:\>dir /b dir1
testfile.txt

d:\>dir /b dir2
testfile.txt

Then the following command will successfully copy TESTFILE.TXT from DIR1 to DIR2, appending a version number to the end of the filename:

d:\>copy \dir1\testfile.txt %@version[\dir2\testfile.txt,_]
D:\dir1\testfile.txt => D:\dir2\testfile.txt_1

     1 file copied

d:\>dir /b dir2
testfile.txt
testfile.txt_1

 

[Charles Dye]

Take a look at the @VERSION function in TCC help, I think it will do what you want.

Personally, I think @VERSION would be a lot more useful if it added a number before the extension — not after.

 

[samintz]

I completely forgot about @version.

 

[dumbenis]

Thank you all.

I agree with Charles: @VERSION would be a lot more useful if it added a number before the extension — not after.

Marcel

 

[AnrDaemon]

"Extension" is merely a convention. You never know if last dot in a file name actually designates an "extension".