Why isn't this batch script working?

What’s the shell? Is that windows cmd?
Any details to the parse error ?
Does “not ask to overwrite” mean don’t overwrite, or you don’t want it to stop and ask you the question?

This is a batch script, so it’s cmd. I have the right flags to supress prompting, I just don’t get why is gives a parse error

no details on that parsing error ? Does it identify a line or chunk of bad code or tell you a type of error ? (i.e. besides “parse error” )

Just parse error. Try it yourself

I’m not on a windows box right now… no “cmd” interpreter on this box
My advice at this time is to cut/paste/run a chunk of it at a time until you run into the problem.

Well everything runs fine, but for some reason Xcopy dfoesnt work. Robocopy wont do this properly either, and regular copy wont copy subdirectories as far as I know.

This version works for some reason

@echo off
title File Organizer
color 0a
echo.
echo [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][]
echo [] /\ []
echo [] [] []
echo [] [][] []
echo [] [] [] []
echo [] [] [] []
echo [] [] [] []
echo [] /\][][][][/\ []
echo []// \\[]
echo [] []
echo [] []
echo [] []
echo [] []
echo [] []
echo [] []
echo [][]
echo []
ping localhost -n 2 >nul
:FilePath
cls
echo Enter The File Path To Be Sorted:
echo.
set /p FilePath=
echo.
echo Is %FilePath% Correct? (Y/N)

set /p note=
if ’%note%’==‘Y’ GOTO Sort
if ’%note%’==‘y’ GOTO Sort
if ’%note%’==‘N’ GOTO FilePath
if ’%note%’==‘n’ GOTO FilePath

:Sort
echo Now Sorting Files. Folders Will Be Created In Current Directory.
echo.
echo Creating Directories…
MKDIR FileSort
MKDIR FileSort\Compressed
MKDIR FileSort\Music
MKDIR FileSort\Video
MKDIR FileSort\Pictures
MKDIR FileSort\Documents

echo.
echo Complete
echo.
echo Now Beginning Sorting…
ping localhost -n 2 >nul
echo.

echo Sorting Music
echo.
XCOPY /S /E /H /Y ”%FilePath%\*.mp3” “FileSort\Music\”
XCOPY /S /E /H /Y ”%FilePath%\*.wav” “FileSort\Music\”
XCOPY /S /E /H /Y ”%FilePath%\*.caf” “FileSort\Music\”
XCOPY /S /E /H /Y ”%FilePath%\*.m4a” “FileSort\Music\”
XCOPY /S /E /H /Y ”%FilePath%\*.m4r” “FileSort\Music\”
XCOPY /S /E /H /Y ”%FilePath%\*.aac” “FileSort\Music\”
XCOPY /S /E /H /Y ”%FilePath%\*.aiff” “FileSort\Music\”
XCOPY /S /E /H /Y ”%FilePath%\*.au” “FileSort\Music\”
XCOPY /S /E /H /Y ”%FilePath%\*.3gp” “FileSort\Music\”
XCOPY /S /E /H /Y ”%FilePath%\*.flac” “FileSort\Music\”
XCOPY /S /E /H /Y ”%FilePath%\*.m4p” “FileSort\Music\”
XCOPY /S /E /H /Y ”%FilePath%\*.mma” “FileSort\Music\”
echo.

echo Sorting Video
echo.
XCOPY /S /E /H /Y ”%FilePath%\*.aaf” “FileSort\Video\”
XCOPY /S /E /H /Y ”%FilePath%\*.3gp” “FileSort\Video\”
XCOPY /S /E /H /Y ”%FilePath%\*.avi” “FileSort\Video\”
XCOPY /S /E /H /Y ”%FilePath%\*.flv” “FileSort\Video\”
XCOPY /S /E /H /Y ”%FilePath%\*.m4v” “FileSort\Video\”
XCOPY /S /E /H /Y ”%FilePath%\*.mkv” “FileSort\Video\”
XCOPY /S /E /H /Y ”%FilePath%\*.mov” “FileSort\Video\”
XCOPY /S /E /H /Y ”%FilePath%\*.mpeg” “FileSort\Video\”
XCOPY /S /E /H /Y ”%FilePath%\*.mpg” “FileSort\Video\”
XCOPY /S /E /H /Y ”%FilePath%\*.mpe” “FileSort\Video\”
XCOPY /S /E /H /Y ”%FilePath%\*.wmv” “FileSort\Video\”
echo.

echo Sorting Pictures
echo.
XCOPY /S /E /H /Y ”%FilePath%\*.jpg” “FileSort\Pictures\”
XCOPY /S /E /H /Y ”%FilePath%\*.jpeg” “FileSort\Pictures\”
XCOPY /S /E /H /Y ”%FilePath%\*.png” “FileSort\Pictures\”
XCOPY /S /E /H /Y ”%FilePath%\*.bmp” “FileSort\Pictures\”
XCOPY /S /E /H /Y ”%FilePath%\*.gif” “FileSort\Pictures\”
XCOPY /S /E /H /Y ”%FilePath%\*.tiff” “FileSort\Pictures\”
echo.

echo Sorting Compressed Files
echo.
XCOPY /S /E /H /Y ”%FilePath%\*.zip” “FileSort\Compressed\”
XCOPY /S /E /H /Y ”%FilePath%\*.rar” “FileSort\Compressed\”
XCOPY /S /E /H /Y ”%FilePath%\*.7zip” “FileSort\Compressed\”
echo.

echo Sorting Documents
echo.
XCOPY /S /E /H /Y ”%FilePath%\*.doc” “FileSort\Documents\”
XCOPY /S /E /H /Y ”%FilePath%\*.docx” “FileSort\Documents\”
XCOPY /S /E /H /Y ”%FilePath%\*.ppt” “FileSort\Documents\”
XCOPY /S /E /H /Y ”%FilePath%\*.pptx” “FileSort\Documents\”
XCOPY /S /E /H /Y ”%FilePath%\*.xls” “FileSort\Documents\”
XCOPY /S /E /H /Y ”%FilePath%\*.xlsx” “FileSort\Documents\”
XCOPY /S /E /H /Y ”%FilePath%\*.txt” “FileSort\Documents\”

Pause>nul

Ah, the /E makes sense. Good show.

Just wondering, is there a wayto dump the contents of the entire DOS console to a text file after its done? I know you use >file.txt, but not sure how to output everything at once.

Heck, I’d try a copy/paste once it’s already happened.
There is probably a terminal app out there that will dump everything in the scroll buffer with a menu option but I don’t know which offhand.

Dang, I do’t want t have two copies of everything putting the output into a text file XD

I’m hardly as used to cmd as I am to other shells (sh/csh/ksh in particular) but redirects such as >file.txt are good for logging, and you are smart to have lots of ‘echo’ comments for the output.