Thread: Moving files from one directory to multiple dirs

I love c, but let me recommend the right tool for the task: VBScript. You already know ASP, so that tells me that you know VBScript. You might not know that VBS only needs a scripting host to run under, and the ASP engine is one such host. But for a command line driven app, you should run under cscript.exe. You invoke a script with "cscript.exe script.vbs" from a windows command line. You can't use Response.Write (thats ASP specific) but if you google Wscript, that is an object you can use. Also you can google "Scripting.FileSystemObject", since that is the object you need to copy the files, and to check if the file exists or has been modified, etc. There is lots of free code posted on the Web for VBS, so this should take you all of 10 minutes.

If you read through my 3 part tutorial here you'll see how to log your receiving directory. Extract the key info from the filename, build a target directory string and call MoveFile() or CopyFile() as appropriate.

The tutorial is written using C++ I/O but change the headers and cout's to printf() and it will work, the API routines are language neutral.

There are other ways to do this, but ths is probably simplest.

If you decide to do it in c you will need these functions defined in winbase.h
FindFirstFile
FindNextFile
MoveFile
CreateDirectory

You beet me to it adrianxw

Boy you guys sure like to do things the hard way. Why don't you just use rename? Read the man page.

Quzah.

Using rename() is fine, it is pretty much equivalent to MoveFile(), but it assumes that you already know the source filename. If you are watching a directory for files arriving, as he says, rename() by itself achieves nothing.

That's like saying prinf alone won't display the output I want. I have to have variables with my information in it and pass it to that function! Of course it won't do it alone. For starters, you have to build a directory name for it based off of the file name. So yeah, just using rename all by itself isn't going to work. You'll have to put a bit more thought into it.

Quzah.