Filter Xcopy containing text

I think you can pass wildcards to it... xcopy "*certain text*" Do mean to have xcopy inspect the content of each file, or just the content of the file name?

I would like for xcopy to inspect the content of each file. I need to copy only files and have certain content to a different folder.

HectorS, To do that with a batch file I think you will have to loop through each line of a file and use findstr to identify the strings you are looking for, and then echo the file names into another list. Then you would use another for loop to xcopy each of the files in that file list to the other directory. Can you give me some example file names and directories?

Thanks, I got it to work using the external file like you suggested. There was other code that populated yesterdays date into %awsdt%. I might change the copy command to xcopy as I refine. rem ------------------ extract files --- findstr /m "SearchText" %awsdt%\*.slq > D:\BATCHFILES\EXT\SLQcopy.inc @echo off set dst_folder=D:\SLQ for /f %%i in (SLQcopy.inc) DO copy "%%i" "%dst_folder%" HectorS

Funny you should mention yesterdays date. I just made this for another post: REM breaking up date to construct remote file name set year=%date:~10,4% set month=%date:~4,2% set monthday=%date:~7,2% set /a yesterday=%monthday% - 1 So, you could just use those variables depending on how the file name is structured. If the file is 02012012.txt then the you would set awsdt like this: set awsdt=%month%%yesterday%%year%.txt The only problem with this is that it doesn't work on the first of the month since the yesterday variable would be set with 1-1, which equals zero. That could be fixed with some quick calculation of the days in the month though.

Thank you...I found yesterdays date which pretty much checks for everything: @echo off set yyyy= set $tok=1-3 for /f "tokens=1 delims=.:/-, " %%u in ('date /t') do set $d1=%%u if "%$d1:~0,1%" GTR "9" set $tok=2-4 for /f "tokens=%$tok% delims=.:/-, " %%u in ('date /t') do ( for /f "skip=1 tokens=2-4 delims=/-,()." %%x in ('echo.^|date') do ( set %%x=%%u set %%y=%%v set %%z=%%w set $d1= set $tok=)) if "%yyyy%"=="" set yyyy=%yy% if /I %yyyy% LSS 100 set /A yyyy=2000 + 1%yyyy% - 100 set CurDate=%mm%/%dd%/%yyyy% set dayCnt=%1 if "%dayCnt%"=="" set dayCnt=1 REM Substract your days here set /A dd=1%dd% - 100 - %dayCnt% set /A mm=1%mm% - 100 :CHKDAY if /I %dd% GTR 0 goto DONE set /A mm=%mm% - 1 if /I %mm% GTR 0 goto ADJUSTDAY set /A mm=12 set /A yyyy=%yyyy% - 1 :ADJUSTDAY if %mm%==1 goto SET31 if %mm%==2 goto LEAPCHK if %mm%==3 goto SET31 if %mm%==4 goto SET30 if %mm%==5 goto SET31 if %mm%==6 goto SET30 if %mm%==7 goto SET31 if %mm%==8 goto SET31 if %mm%==9 goto SET30 if %mm%==10 goto SET31 if %mm%==11 goto SET30 REM ** Month 12 falls through :SET31 set /A dd=31 + %dd% goto CHKDAY :SET30 set /A dd=30 + %dd% goto CHKDAY :LEAPCHK set /A tt=%yyyy% %% 4 if not %tt%==0 goto SET28 set /A tt=%yyyy% %% 100 if not %tt%==0 goto SET29 set /A tt=%yyyy% %% 400 if %tt%==0 goto SET29 :SET28 set /A dd=28 + %dd% goto CHKDAY :SET29 set /A dd=29 + %dd% goto CHKDAY :DONE if /I %mm% LSS 10 set mm=0%mm% if /I %dd% LSS 10 set dd=0%dd% REM Set IIS and AWS date variables set IISDT=%yyyy:~2,2%%mm%%dd% set AWSDT= %mm%%dd%%yyyy% I found it in: http://www.powercram.com/2010/07/ge... Thanks you have been a big help. HectorS