I have a folder with a few hundred PDF files and would like to sort them to various other folders according to selected words in each PDF title. The unsorted PDF folder is C:\PDF The destination folders are (for example): D:\PDF\MATH D:\PDF\ENGLISH D:\PDF\GEOGRAPHY D:\PDF\BIOLOGY D:\PDF\CHEMISTRY The words used for searching every PDF title (filename) would obviously be: math, english, geography, etc. If there's more than one way of doing this, I'd be interested to know. thanks

There are multiple ways to do this, here is probably the easiest(in my opinion): pushd c:\pdf for %%a in (MATH ENGLISH GEOGRAPHY BIOLOGY CHEMISTRY) do ( move "*%%a*.PDF" "%%a" ) popd

@ Judago Wow, thanks it works great, it took just a couple of minutes to sort through 1,200 Pdfs. I had to create the destination folders first in C:\PDF I'd been trying to find a solution from XP's command prompt but not having much success. thanks again EDIT I afterwards came across the util (copyright 2000, cooltools), xmove.exe, which uses the syntax XMOVE source_dir file_pattern destination_dir [modifiers] by using the wildcard * before a word, after a word and either side of the word, all files whose filename contains that word can be moved to another folder: xmove C:\PDF math* C:\MATH xmove C:\PDF *math C:\MATH xmove C:\PDF *math* C:\MATH Whether copy, move, xcopy, xxcopy, robocopy have a similar ability to deal with wildcards, I'm not sure.