How to copy folders in a batch?

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I have a directory in which there are many folders but i do not want to copy all of them at once i want to copy say 10 folders at a time from drive to local but i don't know how can i do it.

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hello and welcome to the forum,

there are a few ways to do that.

  1. create a batch file like so

rclone copy /path/to/local/folder1 dest:/folder1
rclone copy /path/to/local/folder2 dest:/folder2
rclone copy /path/to/local/folder3 dest:/folder3
rclone copy /path/to/local/folder4 dest:/folder4

  1. use flag --include-from
    https://rclone.org/filtering/#include-from-read-include-patterns-from-file

let says you want to copy folders folder2 and folder3
create a text file named include.txt

/folder2/**
/folder3/**

rclone copy path/to/local dest: --filter-from=include.txt

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Hello thanks for the reply
Is there a way to get the directory list in this format /folder/** when i used rclone lsf --dirs-only i got the directory list in this format folder/ do i have to manually add /** for each directory name in the include list?

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you should be able to.
give it a try.

i suggest when testing to use this flag
--dry-run

here is an example of a command i have used.

rclone lsf --files-only -R %dest% | rclone copyto %source% %dest% --include-from=- -v

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Sorry i think i didn't write my reply properly I wanted to say when i used lsf --dirs-only i got the directory list in this format

folder/
folder2/
folder3/

but in the include list you have to format folders like this

/folder/**
/folder2/**
/folder3/**

So do i have to add /** to every directory name in the include list manually? but there are too many folders in my directory so is there any way to get the directory list in /folder/** format so i can just copy the directory names from cmd and paste it in the include list?

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Are you on Windows?

If you want to use rclone lsf, and produce path strings in format /folder/**, you could do something like the following:

From Command Prompt:
for /f %i in ('rclone lsf ENTER_SOURCE_PATH_HERE --dirs-only') DO @echo /%i**

Alternatively, from PowerShell:
rclone lsf ENTER_SOURCE_PATH_HERE --dirs-only | % { "/${_}**" }

If you are going to manually maintain the include list files anyway, it would be just as quick to just copy the paths as returned by rclone lsf, and then use a proper text editor like Notepad++ and either perform regex search/replace (search for ^(.*), replace with /\1**) or multi-cursor editing (Alt+Shift+PageDown etc).

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also on windows you can do this

rclone lsf --dirs-only C:/path/to/local/folder --absolute --max-depth=1 | wsl sed 's~/$~/**~' | rclone sync C:/path/to/local/folder remote: --include-from=- -vv

on linux, from user calisro
rclone lsf --dirs-only \path\to\local\folder | sed 's~/$~/**~' | rclone sync --include-from - \path\to\local\folder remote:

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It think it was correct as I wrote it, assuming you execute it directly from Command Prompt, interactive shell. You are correct, though, when executed from a batch script - then you would need to double up the '%':

for /f %%i in ('rclone lsf ENTER_SOURCE_PATH_HERE --dirs-only') DO @echo /%%i**

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Thank you so much it worked

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