Question

I have a folder with approx 10000 images, and I need to copy about 500 of them to another folder.

If I create a list of the files I want to copy, how could I copy the files the files?

Was thinking vbscript or is it possible thorough DOS commands such as Xcopy using switches?

Thanks,

Answer 1

assuming that you had the list of files in a text file, here’s a vbscript

Set objFS=CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objArgs = WScript.Arguments
strFile = objArgs(0)
strDestination = objArgs(1)
Set objFile =objFS.OpenTextFile(strFile)
Do Until objFile.AtEndOfLine
    strLine = objFile.ReadLine
    objfs.CopyFile strLine,strDestination &"\"&strLine
Loop

save as myscript.vbs and on command line

C:\test>more file
test1.txt
test2.txt

c:\test> cscript //nologo myscript.vbs file c:\destination\directory

OR if you want batch

@echo off
for /F %%i in (file) do (  copy "%%i" c:\destination   )

if you want to move list of files according to some pattern, just do

c:\test> copy *pattern*.txt c:\destination