Help Needed with Searching File/Folder/Move .Bat file

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Could you upload a text file in the format of,

Artist Name 1
songwithnospaces1.htm
songwithnospaces2.htm

Artist Name 2
songwithnospaces3.htm
songwithnospaces4.htm

etc....

Then I could easily create a batch file like,

xcopy /qv songwithnospaces1.htm .\"Artist Name 1"
xcopy /qv songwithnospaces2.htm .\"Artist Name 1"
xcopy /qv songwithnospaces3.htm .\"Artist Name 2"
xcopy /qv songwithnospaces4.htm .\"Artist Name 2"

If that looks right to you.

Currently still searching for an answer but yes attached are two artist documents with their songs.

The format of the .txt files isn't exactly like you want as I think I'm on to something along the lines of what I need.

Using 2 files (Alabama.txt) with Filelist.txt (Dir /b > filelist.txt, from .bat file)

Current .bat file:

Code:

@ECHO OFF
:: Get Files In The Directory & Output Them Into Filelist.txt
Dir /b > filelist.txt 
::
Dir /b|find "string" (C:\Artist\Alabama.txt)
for %%a in (E:\0BACKUP ONLY\DOCS\song lyrics) do move (C:\Artist\)
pause

there are no spaces in the file name of the html files is why the songs are they way they are.

No attachments, did you click upload after browsing and selecting the files?
Edit: Files there now

Does each Artist have their own text file with a list of their files?

filelist.txt is no good there's no way to determine which file belongs to which artist, except some that have the artist in the title.
The other two I can work with or creating a list in one file in the format I specified before.

Make a backup of the files if you havn't already. Now this isn't perfect but if you can create a list for each artist then this should work

Code:

@echo off

rem Copy Files
for /F "usebackq delims==" %%i in ("D:\Artist\Alabama.txt") do xcopy /qv "%%ilyricschords.*" ".\Alabama\*.*"
for /F "usebackq delims==" %%i in ("D:\Artist\BillAnderson.txt") do xcopy /qv "%%ilyricschords.*" ".\BillAnderson\*.*"

rem Move Files - requires destination folder to already exist
md Alabama
md BillAnderson
for /F "usebackq delims==" %%i in ("D:\Artist\Alabama.txt") do move "%~dp0%%ilyricschords.html" "%~dp0Alabama\"
for /F "usebackq delims==" %%i in ("D:\Artist\BillAnderson.txt") do move "%~dp0%%ilyricschords.html" "%~dp0BillAnderson\"

echo.
pause

Just put it in the same folder as the files.

Only use the 2 copy lines or 2 move lines not all 4. I would use the copy lines as there will be less scripting then if all is successful then you can delete the originals.

Take note the two text files did not contain the extension .html on the file names if any list does then remove .* from "%%ilyricschords.*" for the copy lines or remove .html "%~dp0%%ilyricschords.html" for the move lines.

I can't see anyway of doing this any easier than manually creating the list files. Using a single list file in the format I specified before would take just as long to create but using find and replace in a good text editor could speed up the batch file creation.

EDIT: Just looked at your filelist.txt again and noticed all files contain "lyricschords" on the end so I updated the code to work with that.

EDIT: New and improved code in next post.