finding/moving files

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Good Morning

Could someone tell me what the dos cmd is to find all pdf files in all sub directories and copy them to a named folder please.

Thank you

[Hackoo]

Good Morning

Could someone tell me what the dos cmd is to find all pdf files in all sub directories and copy them to a named folder please.

Thank you

Hi 
Did you mean move or copy them in new folder ?

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To copy please

[Hackoo]

Hi 
You can give a try with this batch file : CopyPDF.bat
Just copy and paste this code with your notepad and save it as CopyPDF.bat and just drag and drop your folder on it.

Code: [Select]

@echo off
Title Copying All PDF files in folder and its subfolders with drag and drop
Mode con cols=75 lines=3 & color 0E
set "Drag_Dir=%~1"
set "Ext=pdf"
echo(
IF ["%Drag_Dir%"] EQU [""] Goto:Error
set "newFolder=%Drag_Dir%\New_%Ext%_Folder"
Rem Create the new folder to copy all *.pdf on it
If not exist "%newFolder%" md "%newFolder%"
2>nul cd "%newFolder%" && Call :CopyPDFfiles || Goto:Error
EXplorer "%newFolder%"
Exit
::********************************************
:CopyPDFfiles
for /f "delims=" %%I in ('Dir /a-d /b /s "%Drag_Dir%\*.%Ext%"') do (
    Copy /Y "%%I" "%newFolder%"
)
Exit /b
::********************************************
:Error
Mode con cols=75 lines=5 & Color 0C
echo(
ECHO           You must drag and drop a folder on this batch program
ECHO                 to copy all PDF files in new location
Timeout /T 10 /NoBreak >nul
Exit /b
::*****************************************

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Thank you Hacko.

It created the folder but no pdf's inside it.

[Hackoo]

It created the folder but no pdf's inside it.

Check if your folder and its subfolders contains any pdf files or not !
if the batch file dosen't find any pdf files it create an empty folder named New_PDF_Folder

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Yes that worked beautifully! Thank you very much! Could you possibly tweet the code so I could run this batch file to find pdf's with a name containing the characters "plan"?

[Hackoo]

Yes that worked beautifully! Thank you very much! Could you possibly tweet the code so I could run this batch file to find pdf's with a name containing the characters "plan"?

Here we go 

Code: [Select]

@echo off
Title Copying All PDF files in folder and its subfolders with drag and drop
Mode con cols=75 lines=3 & color 0E
set "Drag_Dir=%~1"
set "Ext=pdf"
set "Word=plan"
IF ["%Drag_Dir%"] EQU [""] Goto:Error
set "newFolder=%Drag_Dir%\New_%Ext%_Folder"
Rem Create the new folder to copy all *.pdf on it
If not exist "%newFolder%" md "%newFolder%"
2>nul cd "%newFolder%" && Call :CopyPDFfiles || Goto:Error
Explorer "%newFolder%"
Exit
::********************************************
:CopyPDFfiles
for /f "delims=" %%I in ('Dir /a-d /b /s "%Drag_Dir%\*.%Ext%" ^| find /I "%Word%"') do (
Rem find all pdf's with a name containing the characters "plan" and copy them to the newfolder
    Copy /Y "%%I" "%newFolder%"
)
Exit /b
::********************************************
:Error
Mode con cols=75 lines=5 & Color 0C
echo(
ECHO           You must drag and drop a folder on this batch program
ECHO                 to copy all PDF files in new location
Timeout /T 10 /NoBreak >nul
Exit /b
::*****************************************

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That worked too! Thank you so much! I did not realise so much coding was involved.

[Hackoo]

That worked too! Thank you so much! I did not realise so much coding was involved.

You are welcome dude and don't forget to use the Thanks link 
Have a nice day !