help scripting way to copy/rename one file to subfolders

So you want all TXT files inside a folder (and its subfolders) to be replaced by master?
why?

Let's see if I understand correctly:
You want to find all .txt files in ALL subfolders of F:, but NOT .txt files from the start folder itself (F:\) ?

If that's correct this script will do a dir of .txt files including ALL subfolders recursively.
Then it will jump over any .txt files that are found in the start folder (F:\)

Code:

@ECHO OFF
for /f "delims=*" %%A in ('dir "F:\*.txt" /s /b') do (
  IF NOT "%%~dA%%~pA" == "F:\" (
    echo "%%~fA"
    REM copy F:\master "%%~fA"
  )
)

You should run the script first and fully verify that if finds all the right files + that it excludes all .txt files from the start folder F:\
If all looks OK you can delete the word REM before the copy command

F:\master is that the real name? Or is it F:\master.txt? Please give the real name.
What is the root folder where all txt files have to be replaced?

With that info I can make a script

Code:

@echo off
for  /R  F:\  %%i  in  (*.txt)  do  echo  copy "F:\master"  "%%i"
pause

Put in bat file. Replace D:\ with actual root of txt files to replace. Replace f:\master with actual template file.
Run it (it shows what it does). all is fine? if so... remove the word echo and run for the real work

ron7000 said:

thanks.

yes 'F:\master' was the actual name i was going with.

I used the .txt file suffix as an example, I need to do various files but the principle is all the same. The big thing is i don't know the file name before the suffix, and i don't know the names of the subfolders or how many subfolders there are.

Try my script as a test. Is that what you want?

F:\master ...hmmm so a file without an extension?

what is the root folder of all txt files to replace? Is it f:\ ?