Wildcard in FileCopy destination

[jjppark]

I'm sure there is a simple explanation that I'm just not seeing. I need to include in my script a file copy to a destination path which includes several variable characters. That is, the last part of the path contains characters which vary from user to user.

The following did not work successfully:

$szFile = "c:\prefs2.txt"

$workingdir = "C:\Documents and Settings\jjp\Application Data\Thunderbird\profiles\*.default\"

FileCopy($szFile, $workingdir)

The wildcard represents the part of the directory which changes from user to user.

Please help.

Thanks in advance.

[BPBNA]

You would have to have a way to check which user unless your trying to copy it into all the users folder, in which case you could use FileFindFirstFile and FileFindNextFile I beleive.

[Geeky]

Whats the .default for?

I'm not very experienced with autoit, but i'm pretty sure its not supposed to look like that. Whats the meaning of having the .default there?

[BPBNA]

The .default, I'm assuming, is the file extension that its going to have. Is this correct?

[lod3n]

Try this;

#Include <File.au3>

$szFile = "c:\prefs2.txt"
$workingdir = "C:\Documents and Settings\jjp\Application Data\Thunderbird\profiles\"

$FolderList=_FileListToArray($workingdir,"*.default",2)
If (Not IsArray($FolderList)) and (@Error=1) Then
    MsgBox (0,"","No Files\Folders Found.")
    Exit
EndIf
for $i = 1 to $FolderList[0]
    $folder = $workingdir & $FolderList[$i]
    FileCopy($szFile, $folder)
Next

[jjppark]

The .default, I'm assuming, is the file extension that its going to have. Is this correct?

The ".default" is the part of the directory name that is constant.

[jjppark]

Whats the .default for?

I'm not very experienced with autoit, but i'm pretty sure its not supposed to look like that. Whats the meaning of having the .default there?

The ".default" is the part of the directory name that is constant.

[jjppark]

You would have to have a way to check which user unless your trying to copy it into all the users folder, in which case you could use FileFindFirstFile and FileFindNextFile I beleive.

The directory I listed is actually a single directory on each workstation. I want to copy the file into this directory (I'm running from a login script) except I only know the last portion of the directory name...the ".default" portion.

[lod3n]

Perhaps you could show a few examples of what end result you are looking for, are you saying:

c:\prefs2.txt > C:\Documents and Settings\jjp\Application Data\Thunderbird\profiles\prefs2.default

c:\prefs1.txt > C:\Documents and Settings\jjp\Application Data\Thunderbird\profiles\prefs1.default

[jjppark]

Perhaps you could show a few examples of what end result you are looking for, are you saying:

c:\prefs2.txt > C:\Documents and Settings\jjp\Application Data\Thunderbird\profiles\prefs2.default

c:\prefs1.txt > C:\Documents and Settings\jjp\Application Data\Thunderbird\profiles\prefs1.default

Sure:

c:\prefs.txt > C:\Documents and Settings\jjp\Application Data\Thunderbird\profiles\xpfcn5m2.default\prefs.txt

The "xpfcn5m2" is the portion that varies and is the part I was representing with a wildcard character.

Thanks again for helping me figure this out.

[lod3n]

The code I posted before should handle this.

[jjppark]

The code I posted before should handle this.

Excellent. I'll give it a try.

[jjppark]

Try this;

#Include <File.au3>

$szFile = "c:\prefs2.txt"
$workingdir = "C:\Documents and Settings\jjp\Application Data\Thunderbird\profiles\"

$FolderList=_FileListToArray($workingdir,"*.default",2)
If (Not IsArray($FolderList)) and (@Error=1) Then
    MsgBox (0,"","No Files\Folders Found.")
    Exit
EndIf
for $i = 1 to $FolderList[0]
    $folder = $workingdir & $FolderList[$i]
    FileCopy($szFile, $folder)
Next

Am I wrong or is the _FileListToArray not a defined AutoIt3 function? I can't seem to find reference to it.

[jjppark]

Am I wrong or is the _FileListToArray not a defined AutoIt3 function? I can't seem to find reference to it.

I see that I had to use Beta 3 to get access to that function. Tried it...works great. Thanks for the help!

[lod3n]

Oops, sorry. I should have mentioned it. I keep falsely assuming everyone updates as compulsively as I do.