I am trying to create a batch script that imports the titles of text files in a folder that contain a specific string into a new test file.
This is what I have achieved so far. It imports every text file into the document and if it contains the string, it will put the contents of that file under the title. I just want the title of the file to be imported. Thank you
find "test" dir *.txt > output.txt
OUTPUT:
---------- ALSO_CONTAINS.TXT
test.
---------- CONTAINS.TXT
This is a test
---------- CONTAINS_ASWELL.TXT
This is also a test
---------- SHOULD_FAIL.TXT
Instead of using find, use findstr instead, which if you read the usage information from findstr /? at the Command Prompt, will show you a /M option, (which prints only the filename if it contains a match)
FindStr /IM "test" *.txt>output.txt
Just in case there's an issue with your %PATH% and/or %PATHEXT% environment variables, you could also use:
"%__APPDIR__%FindStr.exe" /IM "test" "*.txt">"output.txt"
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I would like to achieve the following in CMD:
Will search for a specific filename - This I know how to do, with dir /s filename
Once found it will bring me to that path.
Example: I am now on C:\, if that file was found in C:\test then it will open C:\test in command prompt.
Alternatively, I would like just to copy the found file to a path I will specify. I just don't know how to do it, since I don't know the path where the file will be stored (it's different every time).
Thanks in advance!
I'm a liitle confused with your question but I will try to walk you through a batch code I wrote to help you with this.
dir /b /s "test.txt" > "%userprofile%/Desktop/result.txt"
::find the file path to the file you want to find and insert it in a .txt file
::you made called result.txt (also %userprofile% is a variable that brings you to
::your user directory ex C:/users/admin)
for /F "tokens=*" %%A in (%userprofile%/desktop/result.txt) do (
set var1=%%A
)
::set the variable var1 equal to the first (well... only) line in the file.
::I could explain what that for loop means in detail but just remember that %%A
::is a variable set from what was found when looping through the result.txt.
xcopy /s "%var1%" "C:/wherever/you/want/it/to/go"
did this help??
I need to move 300 images from a folder (contains 800 images) to another folder. The file name list of these 300 images are available in the excel format. Is it possible to move them via programming instead of search the file and move it one by one? Our IT told me he can't separate these files. Do you have any solution? Many thanks in advance!!!
Here's one way of doing this - I am assuming you are on Windows. First, save text file called ListOfImages.txt that contains the names of the images you wish to move - put one image on each line and include the extension. Then, save the following into a file called movefiles.cmd:
#echo off
set Source=C:\Users\YourName\Desktop\moving\MovingFrom
set Target=C:\Users\YourName\Desktop\moving\MovingTo
set FileList=C:\Users\YourName\Desktop\moving\ListOfImages.txt
echo.
if not exist "%Source%" echo Source folder "%Source%" not found & goto Exit
if not exist "%FileList%" echo File list "%FileList%" not found & goto Exit
if not exist "%Target%" md "%Target%"
for /F "delims=" %%a in ('type "%FileList%"') do move "%Source%\%%a" "%Target%"
:Exit
echo.
echo press the Space Bar to close this window.
pause > nul
You will want to change the variables for Source, Target, and FileList to match where you have those folders and the ListOfImages.txt on your machine. After you have saved this file (make sure it has the .cmd extension, you should be able to double-click it and it will run the commands in your Command Prompt.
For example, say my MovingFrom folder contains the following:
And I only want to move Image1.png and Image2.png -- then my ListOfImages.txt file would like this:
After running moveFiles.cmd (provided I have changed the necessary variables to point to the right folders/places on my machine), my MovingTo folder should contain the following:
Notice that Image2.png was not moved because it was not listed in the ListOfImages.txt text file.
Is there any way that one can filter a text file in Windows' CMD as with awk in shell script?
I have a somehow large file and I only need the last column from each row. This will be done extremely easy with awk, but I have no means of using that now.
Try this our
Get-Content .\test.csv | %{ $_.Split(',')[1]; }
or for more reference
check out this site
[1]: http://windows-powershell-scripts.blogspot.in/2009/06/awk-equivalent-in-windows-powershell.html
This will return every last term after the last comma in a .csv file for example:
#echo off
type "file.csv" | repl ".*,(.*)" "$1" >"newfile.txt"
This uses a helper batch file called repl.bat (by dbenham) - download from: https://www.dropbox.com/s/qidqwztmetbvklt/repl.bat
Place repl.bat in the same folder as the batch file or in a folder that is on the path.
I need to know how to perform an advanced search on a text file using tools like notepad++, freecommander and windows if possible. A bat script file will be great.
The problem is that i need to search through about 1000 txt files in a directory. I need to know form those 1000 txt files which have a string in the form of for example "SYR_SHA/245/4". I just want it search for the pattern for example *****_******/*****/****** where * are characters that can change in number.
There must be an _ between the first and second set of characters as seen above in the example.
the script should go through the entire txt file and search for the above pattern. The script should then Move all the results in to a seperate directory
Many Thanks
Create this batch file and copy it into your folder where you have all the 1000 .txt files
Change the yourdestinationdirectory directory and run the batch file
#Echo Off
FindStr /M /R "[a-zA-Z]*_[a-zA-Z]*\/[0-9]*\/[0-9]*" *.Txt > findstr.out
For /F "tokens=*" %%a In (FindStr.out) Do call :move_Rtns %%a
del FindStr.out
Exit /B
:move_rtns
copy %1 yourdestinationdirectory\*
del /Q %1
Exit /B
Please change the Regex according to your requirement, for eg. If you are expecting number and letter together you can replace [a-zA-z] with [a-zA-Z0-9]
Good luck
I am trying to create a little script to convert video on windows using the 'send to' menu.
For this I want to create a new file name from the one in input.
But I fail to concatenate strings.
Following the syntax found here, I wrote this piece of code:
#echo Input:
#echo %1
set "outputfile=%1%.MP4"
#echo %outputfile%
But I have an issue with the quotes in the outputfile:
Input:
"D:\this is a test\MVI_7754.AVI"
D:\this is a test>set "outputfile="D:\this is a test\MVI_7754.AVI".MP4"
"D:\this is a test\MVI_7754.AVI".MP4
I would expect the extension inside the quotes not outside!
Could someone tell me how I can concatenate the file name and the extension?
Thanks!
#echo Input:
#echo %1
set outputfile="%~1.MP4"
#echo %outputfile%
to remove previous extension
use
set outputfile="%~n1.MP4"
if you don't use path names or
set outputfile="%~dpn1.MP4"
(name will be converted to full path)