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May 18, 2012 at 13:33:31
Specs: Windows 7
I need to search all the files in a directory for a word and then move those files that have the word to one directory and all the files without the word to a different directory.

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May 19, 2012 at 04:40:14
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:: sandi.bat  Sat 19-05-2012 18:17:53.07
@echo off & setLocal enableDELAYedeXpansioN

for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a in ('dir/b *.txt') do (
find "word" < "%%a" > nul
  if errorlevel 1 (
    echo move "%%a" nope
  ) else (
    echo move "%%a" found
  )
)

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