DOS Command to Move Image Files to another Folder ?

[mave27]

I have numerous image files (JPG/PNG format) stored in a folder. I would like to filter out (move to another folder) images that does NOT contain any of the following text :

_thumb ; _tiny ; _zoom ; _std

Example: image_thumb.jpg ; image_tiny.jpg ; image_zoom.jpg ; image_std.jpg ; image.jpg

Output: image.jpg should be moved to another Folder

Anyone care to share DOS Command prompt to achieve this ?

Thanks in Advance.

 

[JonM]

If I were you, I would seriously consider using something a bit more powerful like perl / powershell / VB etc.
Having said that, here is a quick and dirty way of doing this:

mkdir c:\temp\foo
move *_*.jpg c:\temp\foo
move *.jpg c:\temp\bar
move c:\temp\foo\* .
rmdir c:\temp\foo

this creates a folder (c:\temp\foo)
moves all jpg files which include an underscore into that folder
moves all the remaining jpg files into a folder (c:\temp\bar) - change this to your desired output folder
moves the underscored files back into the current folder
removes c:\temp\foo

This assumes the following:
you are running it from the directory containing the files and have permissions to write to that directory
you don't want any files with underscores rather than a set list of unwanted strings
that c:\temp exists

If you want something a bit more powerful, but insist on using DOS style commands, you would do well to have a look at the following batch file commands:
FOR (to loop through all the files in a folder)
FINDSTR (to filter out the files you want to move / keep)

If you require this to be all as one line, you can combine commands with an ampersand (&):
mkdir c:\temp\foo & move *_*.jpg c:\temp\foo & ... etc

If you have a huge amount of files, or they are really large, you are better off investigating something which doesn't require moving all the other files somewhere, then moving them back. This will take a long time in some instances.

 

[ignatzatsonic]

Would a method within a GUI in Windows be OK or must this be a command line method?

Can you identify all the files you want to move (or not move) by simply looking at their file names on a scrollable list?

Roughly how many files on your hard drive with those 2 extensions need to be moved?

Roughly how many files on your hard drive with those 2 extensions don't need to be moved?

 

[Ztruker]

Maybe the find command:

C:\WINDOWS\system32>find /?
Searches for a text string in a file or files.

FIND [/V] [/C] [/N] [/I] [/OFF

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[Pyprohly]

Don't think OP is returning, but here's an answer.

:: th-378244.bat SourcePath DestinationPath
@echo off
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
REM For each file in 'SourcePath', move the file to 
REM 'DestinationPath' if it's filename does not contain a 
REM string mentioned in 'ignore_files_containing_string'.

::
set ignore_files_containing_string="_thumb";"_tiny";"_zoom";"_std"
set case_sensitive=FALSE
set recurse=FALSE
::

if not "%~3"=="" echo Error: unexpected arguments& exit /b
if "%~2"=="" echo Error: missing arguments& exit /b

if not exist "%~2"\* echo Error: the destination path could not be found& exit /b

if /i "%RECURSE%" equ "TRUE" ( set "recurse_=/s" ) else ( set "recurse_=" )
if /i "%CASE_SEN SITIVE%" equ "TRUE" ( set "case_sensitive_=" ) else ( set "case_sensitive_=/i" )

pushd "%~1"
for /f "delims=" %%I in (' dir /a:-d /b %RECURSE_% "*" ') do (
	set /a contains_string_counter=0
	for %%J in (%IGNORE_FILES_CONTAINING_STRING%) do (
		echo.%%~nxI| find %CASE_SENSITIVE_% "%%~J" >NUL && (
			set /a contains_string_counter+=1
		)
	)
	if exist "%%~I" (
		if "!CONTAINS_STRING_COUNTER!"=="0" move "%%~I" "%~2" >NUL
	)
)
popd