Windows 7 - Batch File to Move a list of files.

OvrKLL · 02-03-2012

Hey All, I just joined this forum to find some help on a specific topic that I've been researching for like two hours now on google. I have a list of 1300 files that I need to move from one location to another (move not copy). I've found this batch file created by Neutron16 which performs a Move but it's all gibberish to me. How would I modify it to move the files to location "C:\Archive" There's about 4,000 other files in the same folder.

Thanks in advance

Lemur · 02-03-2012

Welcome to SF. That's a copy script. Changed it to a move script. You will need to specify the directory of origin. Also, change extension to "bat"

OvrKLL · 02-03-2012

Okay, I've researched the move script, this link gave a pretty good tutorial How To Move Files With A Batch File | mixeduperic.com however I need it to pull from a .txt list of all the filenames, I can change how the entries are separated if need be pipe or comma or a list like this:

entry1.xml
entry2.xml
entry3.xml

I'm able to output all of those through excel.

Thanks for your help. And the kind welcome

strollin · 02-03-2012

Here's a batch file that should do what you need:

Code:

@echo off
if %1.==. goto usage
if %2.==. goto usage
if %3.==. goto usage
FOR /F %%i in (%2) do move /Y %1\%%i %3\%%i
goto xit
:usage
echo Usage - muv source_folder file_list.txt target_folder
echo Example - muv c:\tmp data.txt d:\stuff
:xit

Save this into a file called muv.bat

The /Y after the move command says you don't want to be prompted if the move will overwrite an existing file, change to /-Y if you want to be prompted before overwriting.

Windows 7 - Batch File to Move a list of files.

Batch File to Move a list of files. problems?