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Moving Directory with Wildcards

Comment:

Hi, I wanted to move/copy a directory with a wildcard included. Something like... C:\folder\*123* I tried quite a few different ways but keep on getting errors.

Name: DAVEINCAPS
Date: May 14, 2009 at 12:04:30 Pacific

Reply:

First of all you're not using wildcards right. ? replaces a single character. * replaces a word. You might check some of my comments here: http://www.computing.net/answers/do... Then something like copy c:\source path\files c:\destination path\ would probably work, where 'source path' and 'destination path' would be replaced by whatever applied in your case. You could also check into using the REN or MOVE commands. Just type REN/? or MOVE/? at a dos prompt for help.

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