Estimating how long something like that might take is dependent on many different factors. For example, an experienced programmer can easily knock out a simple arithmetic expression evaluator in a couple of hours, with unit tests. But a novice programmer may have to learn about parsing techniques, recursive descent, abstract representation of expression trees, tree-walking … Read more
Given your list of file names in a file called File-list.txt, the following lines should do what you want: @echo off set src_folder=c:\whatever set dst_folder=c:\target for /f “tokens=*” %%i in (File-list.txt) DO ( xcopy /S/E “%src_folder%\%%i” “%dst_folder%” )
Scripting languages are programming languages that don’t require an explicit compilation step. For example, in the normal case, you have to compile a C program before you can run it. But in the normal case, you don’t have to compile a JavaScript program before you run it. So JavaScript is sometimes called a “scripting” language. … Read more