Making .bat file to copy and rename an image

[flatuswalrus]

Hi all, just wondering if there was any individuals who may be able to help me. I wish to copy the image titled 1.jpg in the folder shown below and name it to match all of the folders:

I had a batch file I used previously to copy an image and name it the same as a bunch of .wad files I had:

for %%a in ("G:\Doom\*") do (copy "C:\Users\Dane\Pictures\Doom.jpg" "G:\Doom\%%~na.png")

I have tried to bastardize it but without success. Does anyone know how to change it to suit what I wish to do with it now? Thank you.

[dragon57]

Try this:

for /d %%a in (".\*") do (copy 1.jpg "%%a\%%a.jpg")

Run the command from the Images directory.

[proghodet]

@dragon57 posted an elegant answer in batch while I was in the process of writing a python script for the same purpose. I figured I might just post it anyway
 

from os import listdir
from os import rename
from shutil import copy

path = 'C:\\Users\\Dane\\LaunchBox\\Images'
imagefile = path + '\\1.jpg'

folders = [f for f in listdir(path)]

for folder in folders:
    try:
        copy(imagefile, path + "\\" + folder + ".jpg")
    except FileNotFoundError:
        print(folder + " was not found")
        continue

 

Edited January 13, 2019 by proghodet

[dragon57]

Variety is the spice of retro life! Good job, @proghodet.

[flatuswalrus]

Thank you very much both for your reply.

@dragon57 I tried it, but it did not work. Do you notice anything obviously incorrect in what I have done?:

for /d %%a in ("C:\Users\Dane\LaunchBox\Images*") do (copy "C:\Users\Dane\LaunchBox\Images\1.jpg" "%%a\%%a.jpg")

@proghodet I will have to look up what a python on script is as I have never heard of it before.

[dragon57]

If you run my command without any edits from the Images directory, it should work fine. I have tested it here repeatedly.

[flatuswalrus]

1 hour ago, dragon57 said:

If you run my command without any edits from the Images directory, it should work fine. I have tested it here repeatedly.

How bloody silly of me, thank you so much. It sure did work. Thank you very much for your help, it is much appreciated. I tried to get my head around learning how to do it before asking but my aptitude/understanding for this kind of stuff has not quite clicked yet.

EDIT: I should have stipulated so my bad but I wanted the images to appear in the folder that 1.jpg is so I can easily cut them to paste somewhere else. I tried searching for ".jpg" in the images folder but about 27k images show up, I tried sorting by date but unfortunately I will have to pull them out of each folder manually. Silly me for not saying that.

EDIT 2: I just manually grabbed them from each folder which only took about 5 minutes. Thanks again.

Edited January 13, 2019 by Dane

[proghodet]

Ah, my bad, I should have explained better. Even though you got it fixed now, I'll post the instructions on how you would use it:

You would need python installed on your system. You can check if you already have it installed by opening the command prompt, and typing python --version, and pressing enter. If not, you can download it from python.org. With python installed, you can copy the code i pasted above into a text-file (using notepad or similar), save the file as copyimages.py, and then just double click the file