I've copied a large directory tree from my machine to an external disk.
I'd like to verify that everything copied accurately. How can I do that?

The "fc" command works well, but it doesn't have a switch that will do
subdirectories.

I'm thinking that some combination of the "for" command and fc will do
it, but the syntax of for is escaping me.

"Anon E. Mouse" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I've copied a large directory tree from my machine to an external disk.
> I'd like to verify that everything copied accurately. How can I do that?
>
> The "fc" command works well, but it doesn't have a switch that will do
> subdirectories.
>
> I'm thinking that some combination of the "for" command and fc will do it,
> but the syntax of for is escaping me.

Here you go:

@echo off
SetLocal EnableDelayedExpansion
set SourceDir=d:\logs
set TargetDir=e:\Test

for /F "delims=" %%a in ('dir /s /b "%SourceDir%"') do (
set Name=%%a
for %%b in ("!Name!") do (
echo fc "%%~db%%~pb%%~nb%%~xb" "%TargetDir%%%~pb%%~nb%%~xb"
)
)

Remove the word "echo" in the third line from the bottom to activate the
batch file.

Pegasus [MVP] wrote:
> "Anon E. Mouse" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> I've copied a large directory tree from my machine to an external disk.
>> I'd like to verify that everything copied accurately. How can I do that?
>>
>> The "fc" command works well, but it doesn't have a switch that will do
>> subdirectories.
>>
>> I'm thinking that some combination of the "for" command and fc will do it,
>> but the syntax of for is escaping me.
>
> Here you go:
>
> @echo off
> SetLocal EnableDelayedExpansion
> set SourceDir=d:\logs
> set TargetDir=e:\Test
>
> for /F "delims=" %%a in ('dir /s /b "%SourceDir%"') do (
> set Name=%%a
> for %%b in ("!Name!") do (
> echo fc "%%~db%%~pb%%~nb%%~xb" "%TargetDir%%%~pb%%~nb%%~xb"
> )
> )
>
> Remove the word "echo" in the third line from the bottom to activate the
> batch file.
>
>
Thank you. This is excellent. And posted in only 20 min!

Output is a bit verbose, so I have to pipe it to a file.

"Anon E. Mouse" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Pegasus [MVP] wrote:
>> "Anon E. Mouse" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>> I've copied a large directory tree from my machine to an external disk.
>>> I'd like to verify that everything copied accurately. How can I do that?
>>>
>>> The "fc" command works well, but it doesn't have a switch that will do
>>> subdirectories.
>>>
>>> I'm thinking that some combination of the "for" command and fc will do
>>> it, but the syntax of for is escaping me.
>>
>> Here you go:
>>
>> @echo off
>> SetLocal EnableDelayedExpansion
>> set SourceDir=d:\logs
>> set TargetDir=e:\Test
>>
>> for /F "delims=" %%a in ('dir /s /b "%SourceDir%"') do (
>> set Name=%%a
>> for %%b in ("!Name!") do (
>> echo fc "%%~db%%~pb%%~nb%%~xb" "%TargetDir%%%~pb%%~nb%%~xb"
>> )
>> )
>>
>> Remove the word "echo" in the third line from the bottom to activate the
>> batch file.
> Thank you. This is excellent. And posted in only 20 min!
>
> Output is a bit verbose, so I have to pipe it to a file.

Thanks for the feedback.

"Anon E. Mouse" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I've copied a large directory tree from my machine to an external
> disk. I'd like to verify that everything copied accurately. How can I
> do that?
> The "fc" command works well, but it doesn't have a switch that will do
> subdirectories.
>
> I'm thinking that some combination of the "for" command and fc will do
> it, but the syntax of for is escaping me.

Open 2 instances of Explorer and put them side by side.

That was good! )

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"Pegasus [MVP]" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
> "Anon E. Mouse" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Pegasus [MVP] wrote:
>>> "Anon E. Mouse" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>>> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>>> I've copied a large directory tree from my machine to an external disk.
>>>> I'd like to verify that everything copied accurately. How can I do
>>>> that?
>>>>
>>>> The "fc" command works well, but it doesn't have a switch that will do
>>>> subdirectories.
>>>>
>>>> I'm thinking that some combination of the "for" command and fc will do
>>>> it, but the syntax of for is escaping me.
>>>
>>> Here you go:
>>>
>>> @echo off
>>> SetLocal EnableDelayedExpansion
>>> set SourceDir=d:\logs
>>> set TargetDir=e:\Test
>>>
>>> for /F "delims=" %%a in ('dir /s /b "%SourceDir%"') do (
>>> set Name=%%a
>>> for %%b in ("!Name!") do (
>>> echo fc "%%~db%%~pb%%~nb%%~xb" "%TargetDir%%%~pb%%~nb%%~xb"
>>> )
>>> )
>>>
>>> Remove the word "echo" in the third line from the bottom to activate the
>>> batch file.
>> Thank you. This is excellent. And posted in only 20 min!
>>
>> Output is a bit verbose, so I have to pipe it to a file.
>
> Thanks for the feedback.
>