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

If the files that you want to copy have something unique in common in the file name you could just use the copy comand:

copy *075p*.jpg targetfolder

If they files to be copied have a specific date, size or atribute you could use robocopy to copy the files (please use robocopy /? to see the options).

Bree said:

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.

my file name have spaces. what to do that?

Is Rick's problem the space in the destination path?

@malkasun Your text file seems to have wrong slashes windows usually uses backslash for folder structure but in the text file there are forward slashes

I:\youtube download/..

ricardobohner said:

@malkasun Your text file seems to have wrong slashes windows usually uses backslash for folder structure but in the text file there are forward slashes

I:\youtube download/..

thank you very much..yeah..!!!! it's coping..
what to do for files move to folder

ricardobohner said:

@malkasun Your text file seems to have wrong slashes windows usually uses backslash for folder structure but in the text file there are forward slashes

I:\youtube download/..

thankyou.. working superb
FOR /F "delims=" %N in (listflyer.txt) do MOVE "%N" "I:\youtube download\Photoshop Tutorial Poster Flyer"

malkasun said:

my file name have spaces. what to do that?

malkasun said:

thankyou.. working superb
FOR /F "delims=" %N in (listflyer.txt) do MOVE "%N" "I:\youtube download\Photoshop Tutorial Poster Flyer"

Glad it's working. The command line has quotes around the second "%N" so that means the names in the text file can include spaces.

Bree said:

Glad it's working. The command line has quotes around the second "%N" so that means the names in the text file can include spaces.

Thanks Lot..

Samuria said:

In the tx file write infront of the file name
copy
then after it c:\weretogo
so if it was
bat.jpg
it will be

copy bat.jog c:\myfolder

you can copy and paste the txt simpler in excel

then save the file as back.cmd in the folder containing all the files and run it

This worked great to copy the files, is there perhaps a way to rename the file as well?

Bree said:

Yes, create the target folder first.

You can create the target folder anywhere you want as long as you use the full path in the FOR command. If you CD into the source folder and you have created the target folder is in the source folder too, then you just need to give its name.

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

This works great! Thank you! But how can I include the search in subfolders as well?