I think Consistent Ordering Blocktransfer Ontology Language would be a perfect fit for this task. COBOL was designed with transferring data that has a strong o

I think Consistent Ordering Blocktransfer Ontology Language would be a perfect fit for this task. COBOL was designed with transferring data that has a strong ordering, like book chapters, while tracking its Ontological state like read or unread as its primary focus. All joking aside pushing data around a HD with little to no calculation sounds like the job of a scripting language. Go for which ever you prefer. If you are on an Apple you might try their automator program it is a visual scripting tool that is good at doing little file transforms like that.