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I need a batch file to search a directory ful of *txt documents to see if these txt documents contain a certain string - if they do contain the string within the document i then need to copy them to another directory
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Hey sirBounty that looks good - one thing i dont understand though if i want toinput the souce directory to serach and have it different to the destination directory how do i do this?
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Excellent - good one SirBounty much appreciated.
Happy to help - thanx!
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for /f %%a in ('findstr /i /m YourString *.txt') do copy %%a c:\Destination /y
The /y is to auto overwrite, remove it if that's not what you want...