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powershell script to search contents of file and move it to a different folder

I need a script to search the contents of a file and based on the title move to to a different folder - about 10 different possible values/folders. I think it can be done with the switch command but not much of a coder.
Thanks!

soostibi

Could you attach some samples of the text files and specify what kind of values and titles are there!

saladoil

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They are reports so on one of the top several lines have a title such as Analysis, Discounts or Notes so based on what the title is want to move the files to a Analysis folder, etc. Can't send samples as this is private data.
I got as far as using select-string -pattern "Notes" | copy-item etc but need to go through multiple files and send to different destinations.
Thanks

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saladoil

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That doesn't seem to work - there are multiple reports and they aren't consistantly named Title: xxxx -
more like this:
REPORT - ARB015B AS OF 02/28/2011 RUN 03/05/2008
COMPANY - 3 . ANALYSIS OF ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE PAGE 1
MARKET - NOT ON FILE
TERRITORY - 73999 NOT ON FILE

TCO/SUSP TOTAL --------------- CURRENT -------- ------------ PAST DUE ---------- --- NOTES --UA-CASH-
CUSTOMER CODE RECEIVABLES DISCOUNT NET/NET-30 DATINGS 1 MONTH 2 MONTHS 3 MTH/OVER
-ABLE
--
so I would want to use something like the switch command and select the string pattern and specify where to move the file to.

saladoil

ASKER

I got the script to work for me so here are your points - thanks!