Question

I am trying to move certain groups of files using wildcards to a folder that is created by the group’s filename. The names of the files are stored in “events.txt”.My batch file is running uptil the last line. It is displayed that my syntax is not correct.

echo off
for /F "tokens=*" %%A in (events.txt) do call :makemove %%A
pause 
exit

:makemove
set f=%1
set file=%f:~0,-4%  
md X%file%
set dest=C:\Users\sony\Desktop\X%file%
move /y "C:\Users\sony\Desktop\*%file%*.*" "%dest%"  

Answer 1

Seems like there are whitespace characters after

set file=%f:~0,-4%

line.

This causes the last line of your script evaluate to

move /y "C:\Users\sony\Desktop\*foobar  *.*" "C:\Users\sony\Desktop\Xfoobar  "

and messes paths up.