Stuck with some batch code

[Jay]

Here is the code

@echo off
setLocal DisableDelayedExpansion
pushd "C:\Users\username\Desktop\New folder (2)\test"

for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%G in ('dir/b/od *.html') do (set newest=%%G)
copy %newest% "C:\Users\username\Desktop\New folder (2)\default.html"

for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%G in ('dir/b/od *.rtf') do (set newest=%%G)
copy %newest% "C:\Users\username\Desktop\New folder (2)\default.rtf"

for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%G in ('dir/b/od *.txt') do (set newest=%%G)
copy %newest% "C:\Users\username\Desktop\New folder (2)\default.txt"

for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%G in ('dir/AD /OD /B') do (set newest=%%G)
copy %newest% "C:\Users\username\Desktop\New folder (2)\default"

POPD

This finds the newest html, rtf txt and folder in "C:\Users\username\Desktop\New folder (2)\test" and copies it to "C:\Users\username\Desktop\New folder (2)\" also renaming each file / folder to "Default"

It all works fine apart from the folder copy. I get "The system cannot find the file specified" Can anyone spot an issue here?

Thanks

[Jay]

Update on this I think its because of the spaces in the folder name

I think that this would fix it

for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%G in ('dir/AD /OD /B') do (set newest="%%G")
copy %newest% "C:\Users\username\Desktop\New folder (2)\default"

[AitchP]

I'll have a closer look, but before I do I thought I'd mention http://ss64.com/nt/ it's a great resource for cmd/batch. I use it all the time!

[Bagnaj97]

Stick quotes around %newest% in the copy, otherwise if %newest% contains a space it'll cause the copy to choke.

[jcgriff2]

Stick quotes around %newest% in the copy, otherwise if %newest% contains a space it'll cause the copy to choke.

Agree.

Also, you may want to substitute the environment variable %userprofile% for C:\Users\username

Regards. . .

jcgriff2
MS MVP