Batch copy commands to match filename to fold

jowah September 23, 2011 at 14:40:50

THIS IS UNTESTED. I set this up to create a folder called "testfolder", and also to copy and not move in case something is wrong with it. @echo off REM outputting list of files to temp file dir /b c:\*.aaa > filelist.tmp REM looping through list to cut the filenames down to their first three digits for /F "tokens=*" %%A in (filelist.tmp) do ( set dir=%A:~0,3% REM creating a list of future directory names echo %dir% >> dirlist.tmp ) REM looping through dirlist.tmp to make directories for /F "tokens=*" %%A in (dirlist.tmp) do ( if not exist c:\testfolder\%%A md c:\testfolder\%%A REM looping through dirlist.tmp to move files into new directories for /F "tokens=*" %%A in (dirlist.tmp) do ( copy c:\%%A*.* c:\%%A\ REM deleting temp files del /q filelist.tmp del /q dirlist.tmp