Copy lines from .csv file into another .csv file using batch script

Question

I am creating .csv files from a device (output) and need to copy a specific number of lines from this file into another .csv file which has the same format.

They are luc

Answer 1

To illustrate why you don't want to do this in batch, this is the code to copy lines 68 through 107 to another file in VBScript:

inputFilename  = "C:\path\to\input.csv"
outputFilename = "C:\path\to\output.csv"
fromLine = 68
toLine   = 107

Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set inFile  = fso.OpenTextFile(inputFilename)
Set outFile = fso.OpenTextFile(outputFilename, 2, True)

Do Until inFile.AtEndOfStream Or inFile.Line > toLine
  line = inFile.ReadLine
  If inFile.Line >= fromLine Then outFile.WriteLine line
Loop

inFile.Close
outFile.Close

To illustrate why you don't want to do this in VBScript either, this is the same operation in PowerShell:

$inputFile  = 'C:\path\to\input.csv'
$outputFile = 'C:\path\to\output.csv'
$fromLine   = 68
$toLine     = 107

$skip       = $fromLine - 1
$numLines   = $toLine - $skip

Get-Content $inputFile | Select-Object -Skip $skip -First $numLines |
    Set-Content $outputFile

which could be simplified to:

$inputFile  = 'C:\path\to\input.csv'
$outputFile = 'C:\path\to\output.csv'
$skip       = 67
$numLines   = 40

Get-Content $inputFile | Select-Object -Skip $skip -First $numLines |
    Set-Content $outputFile

You can even preserve the CSV header if you want:

$inputFile  = 'C:\path\to\input.csv'
$outputFile = 'C:\path\to\output.csv'
$skip       = 66
$numLines   = 40

Import-Csv $inputFile | Select-Object -Skip $skip -First $numLines |
    Export-Csv $outputFile -NoType