Windows – How to burn a cd (files not iso) from the command line in Windows 7

Could somebody help me with my syntax?

There are several problems with your batch file:

1. The options to xcopy go after the source and destination

   XCOPY source [destination] [options]
   

2. Your SET dateNtime... command is broken.

   • It contains spaces and trailing spaces.

   • Using %date% to provide a solution is dependent on the OS Locale, Regional, and Language settings.

   • Rather than try and fix your code I've provided working code using wmic (see getdate)

   • This code works independently of OS Locale, Language or the user's chosen date format (Control Panel/Regional) and it is very easy to change the output format.

The following batch file fixes both of these issues:

@echo off
setlocal enableDelayedExpansion
set/P Drive= Enter destination drive (with colon):
:: 
set BACKUPCMD=xcopy
SET BACKUPOPTIONS=/S /D /I /Y /Q /C /T
:: 
rem get date independently of OS Locale, Language or the user's chosen date format (Control Panel/Regional).
rem use findstr to strip blank lines from wmic output
for /f "usebackq skip=1 tokens=1-6" %%g in (`wmic Path Win32_LocalTime Get Day^,Hour^,Minute^,Month^,Second^,Year ^| findstr /r /v "^$"`) do (
  set _day=00%%g
  set _hours=00%%h
  set _minutes=00%%i
  set _month=00%%j
  set _seconds=00%%k
  set _year=%%l
  )
rem pad with leading zeros
set _month=%_month:~-2%
set _day=%_day:~-2%
set _hh=%_hours:~-2%
set _mm=%_minutes:~-2%
set _ss=%_seconds:~-2%
rem adjust _date as appropriate for your requirements
set _date=%_year%%_month%%_day%%_hh%%_mm%%_ss%
::
set directory=TEST
set source=%directory%
set destination=%Drive%\ARCHIVE_%_date%\%directory%

echo %BACKUPCMD% "C:\%source%\*.*" "%destination%" %BACKUPOPTIONS%

Notes:

• I'm not sure from your question exactly what date format you are looking for.
• Change set _date=%_year%%_month%%_day%%_hh%%_mm%%_ss% as appropriate to get your required date format.
• Remove the last echo when you are happy with the xcopy command.

Further Reading

• An A-Z Index of the Windows CMD command line - An excellent reference for all things Windows cmd line related.
• for /f - Loop command against the results of another command.
• getdate - Display the date and time independent of OS Locale, Language or the users chosen date format (Control Panel/Regional).
• wmic - Windows Management Instrumentation Command.
• xcopy - Copy files and/or directory trees to another folder.

I can move one file to the folder at a time, but I can't seem to move both

I keep getting The syntax of the command is incorrect. even if I remove the comma in between the two files.

The source must be a single file, a directory, or a wildcard expression. None of these apply in your case, where you are specifying two files.

The syntax of the move command is:

Syntax

MOVE [options] [Source] [Target]

Key

source : The path and filename of the file(s) to move.

target : The path and filename to move file(s) to.

options:
    /Y    Suppress confirmation prompt, when overwriting files.
    /-Y   Enable confirmation prompt, when overwriting files.

Both Source and Target can be either a folder or a single file.

The source can include wildcards (but not the destination).

Source move

Assuming that your source directory contains only the 2 ipynb listed in the question you can use the following command:

move *.ipynb "Scraping projects"

Further Reading

• An A-Z Index of the Windows CMD command line
• move - Move a file from one folder to another.
• wildcards