How do I construct a FOR loop or other batch command loop that will copy a 
list of files File1, File2,...,Filen from C: to D:.  I know something like 
the code below will do it, but this is a lot of redundant code.  I'd like to 
be able to just add the file name to a list at the start of the batch file 
and not have to mess w/ the rest of the batch file code.

set a1=File1
set a2=File2
....
set an=Filen
copy C:\%a1% d:\%a1%
copy C:\%a2% d:\%a2%
....
copy C:\%an% d:\%an%

I appreciate your help, -John

"John" <John@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
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> How do I construct a FOR loop or other batch command loop that will copy a
> list of files File1, File2,...,Filen from C: to D:.  I know something like
> the code below will do it, but this is a lot of redundant code.  I'd like 
> to
> be able to just add the file name to a list at the start of the batch file
> and not have to mess w/ the rest of the batch file code.
>
> set a1=File1
> set a2=File2
> ...
> set an=Filen
> copy C:\%a1% d:\%a1%
> copy C:\%a2% d:\%a2%
> ...
> copy C:\%an% d:\%an%
>
> I appreciate your help, -John

You could do something like this:
[01] @echo off
[02] goto Start
[03] ***FileList***
[04] File1.txt
[05] File 2.txt
[06] Last File.txt
[07] ***FileList***
[08] :Start
[09] for /F "skip=3 delims=" %%a in (d:\temp\test.bat) do (
[10]   if /i %%a==***FileList*** goto :eof
[11]   echo copy /y "c:\%%a" d:\
[12] )
Note:
- Put all file names between the ***FileList*** strings as shown. There is 
no limit on their number.
- Do not surround your file names with double quotes.
- Line 9 must reference the correct path & name of your batch file.
- The string ***FileList*** occurs three times. It MUST be the same each 
time.
- Remove the word "echo" in Line 11 to activate the batch file. 

This is close! But I over simpliied the example.  I really am dealing w/ full 
path & file names that include spaces and the copy from and to names are 
different. So I'm really needing to do as series like:
    copy /y "C:\dir a\sub dir a\File 1.txt"  "D:\dir x\sub dir xx\new name 
1.txt"
    copy /y "C:\dir b\sub dir b\File 2.txt"  "D:\dir y\sub dir yy\new name 
2.txt"
    ....
Your example has problems w/ spaces in the file names and assumes the 
from/to names are the same.

How can we generalize this example to handle the additional requirements?