Hi all After reading posts here I found a way to move several files from and to another directory. How ever.... It seems that the code will get to long and i wounder if there is a more easy way to this without so many lines. dir /b *1_*.pdf* > Move_List.txt for /f %%i in (Move_List.txt) do move %%i C:\Tc001 dir /b *2_*.pdf* > Move_List2.txt for /f %%i in (Move_List2.txt) do move %%i C:\Tc002 dir /b *61_*.pdf* > Move_List.txt for /f %%i in (Move_List.txt) do move %%i C:\Tc002G dir /b *3_ *pdf* > Move_List2.txt for /f %%i in (Move_List2.txt) do move %%i C:\Tc003 dir /b *<b></b>pdf* > Move_List.txt for /f %%i in (Move_List.txt) do move %%i C:\Tc003 dir /b *61c_*.pdf* > Move_List2.txt for /f %%i in (Move_List2.txt) do move %%i C:\Tc003B dir /b *61_*.pdf* > Move_List.txt for /f %%i in (Move_List.txt) do move %%i C:\Tc003C dir /b *61c_*.pdf* > Move_List2.txt for /f %%i in (Move_List2.txt) do move %%i C:\Tc003D There are over 100 different dir. to match :-) I really hope that someone can help me...

[1] I'm leary of the pdf* , but maybe you have multiple extensions, whci ought to keep things pretty confused. [2] You can eliminat 1 line per section; skip the creation of a file, llike this: for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a in ('dir/b bla*.pdf') do ( move %%a d:\dest ) Not obvious how you generalize the dest v filename. ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

Hi Thanx for the "clean up" it worked like a charm !