How Do I select multiple files in a folder from a list of file names

@Bree
Thank you so much for you patience with my skill level. This is working exactly as I needed.
-Rick

Bree said:

You can add the PAUSE command as the last line in the batch file to keep the window open until you hit any key.



You are deep down in the directory structure there, and if you included the full path to the text file and for the target folder this may have caused your problems (too long a command line?).

As your Target is a subfolder of the directory you are running the command from you don't need the full path, it is assumed that you mean a folder in the current path. Same for the text file, make sure it's in the source folder so you can just use the filename without a path. Try this at the command prompt...

FOR /F "delims=" %N in (textfile.txt) do COPY "%N" Target

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i have error

listflyer.txt was unexpected at this time.
what to do?

Berton said:

The tried and true methods, there's 3, is one to click the first file in a list, scroll down to the last one desired, hold down the Ctrl key and click the last one, selects all the files between from the first to the last. The second is to hold down the Ctrl key and click individual files in a random order, where not alphabetized. The third is to use Ctrl plus A to select All files in the Folder. Once selected use Ctrl plus C to Copy, Ctrl plus V to Paste to a different location. Or right-click the selections to Copy or Move then Paste.

In File Explorer there is also an option to enable Item Check Boxes which you might find easier to use

malkasun said:

i have error

listflyer.txt was unexpected at this time.
what to do?

your command line was:
FOR /F "delims=" %N in listflyer.txt do COPY "%%N" I:\Youtube download\Photoshop Tutorial Poster flyer

Compare that with the example in Post #11 and you'll spot a few differences.

You left out the brackets inside the FOR...DO part: (listflyer.txt) which is why listflyer.txt was unexpected.

You used %N then %%N in the same line. On a command line both should only have one %. Only in a batch file do you have use two %% but in that case both shoud be %%N.

The destination name includes spaces, so it needs quotes around it: "I:\Youtube download\Photoshop Tutorial Poster flyer"


So the corrected command line you should have typed is:
FOR /F "delims=" %N in (listflyer.txt) do COPY "%N" "I:\Youtube download\Photoshop Tutorial Poster flyer"

If you put the command in a .bat file to run it from there, then you need to use %%N instead of %N because the first % gets stripped off by the command interpreter as it runs the file.