Question

I have been reading great posts in this forum and got close to what I want to do but couldn’t figure out the exact code.

I want to create a windows batch file to do following:

• Perform a looped search for each line item of a text file (this is a list of keyword) to locate files in a a specific directory
• For this search partial match is okay.
• Each time a file is found, move it to a predefined directory (e.g. C:\temp\search_results)

Thanks.

Answer 1

There are multiple problems.

FIND /i “%A%” … can’t work, the name of the FOR-Varibale is %%A
And the second proble: With FIND you check the content of the file not the name.
And you should use indention to avoid too much parenthesis.

You better try

FOR /F "tokens=*" %%A IN (%listfile%) DO (
    FOR %%f in (%searchdir%\*) do ( 
        set "filename=%%~f"
        set replaced=!filename:%%A=!
        if !replaced! NEQ !filename! (
           echo !filename! contains '%%A'
        )
    )
)

It tries to replace %%A inside of the filename with .
If the replaced is not equal the filename, the filename must contain %%A