Copy all files from a folder to another one

Question

I want to copy all files from a folder to another one in Stata.

I have used the following code:

local dlist: dir "$dir" dirs "*"

foreach d of local dlist {

    local file: dir "$dir\"`d'"" files "*.dta"
    foreach f of local file{
       copy `f' "$dir/PROGRAMMATION/INITIALES"
    }   
}

However, Stata returns:

invalid syntax

$dir is the actual directory where this do-file is located.

Answer 1

The following works for me:

global dir /Users/monkey/Downloads

local dlist: dir "$dir" dir "*"

foreach d of local dlist {
    local file: dir "$dir/`d'" files "*.dta"

    foreach f of local file {
       copy "$dir/`d'/`f'"  "/Users/monkey/testdir/`f'"
    }
}   

Note that the code will copy all Stata dataset files contained in every sub-directory of /Users/monkey/Downloads to the directory /Users/monkey/testdir/.

If you just want to copy all Stata dataset files from /Users/monkey/Downloads to /Users/monkey/testdir/ one loop will suffice:

global dir /Users/monkey/Downloads

local file: dir "$dir" files "*.dta"

foreach f of local file{
    copy "$dir`f'"  "/Users/monkey/testdir/`f'"
}