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# 1  
Old 12-28-2012
Move all files with pattern in filename

Well.

I would love to have a way to:

1.) search a folder, lets say: X:\Files
for any file that contains a "Conflict" in its filename (only!)
(recursively so it searches the whole contents of the folder)
2.) Move all files to another Folder.

All this under DOS.

Any help is appreciated.
# 2  
Old 12-28-2012
The built in windows command Find or FindStr mirrors the capabilities of the Unix command Grep.

'dir /B /S' will list all the files, and I gues /A-D to avoid directories.

I guess you could put them in a file and drive edit to convert the file into a bat full of copy commands.

You could get CygWin or the msdos gnu-like commands. UNIX Command Line Tools For MS-Windows XP / Vista / 7 Operating Systems

Last edited by DGPickett; 12-28-2012 at 04:57 PM..
# 3  
Old 12-28-2012
Ok, so supposing I listed the files the way you said...

What would I then need to add in order to move the found files to another dir ?

xargs doesn't exist under windows so...
# 4  
Old 12-28-2012
To ensure reliability, copy one file per line:
Code:
copy <original_line> target_dir

Cygwin definitely has xargs and bash while read. I am not sure how close the others get. I bet you could put Cygwin on a flash drive and run it anywhere, despite the registry. Cygwin is essentially invoked as bash and everything unix-like happens inside there. Cygwin installs pretty simply if you have broadband. I use it a lot.
# 5  
Old 12-28-2012
So essentially what you are saying is:

The thing I want to do is not possible under windows alone without cygwin ?

Meh too bad.

Thanks anyways.
# 6  
Old 12-29-2012
You can get busybox for windows which will have most of the usual commands contained in one exe file. No installation necessary at all.
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# 7  
Old 12-31-2012
Never say never. Driving edit with script might work. PERL is another direction that can help, but that's pretty close to going with VB, C, C++, JAVA. Busybox looks very interesting: BusyBox - The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux

I got the w32 binary version of busybax, and it works really nice: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5943991/busybox-w32/busybox.exe

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