I have a folder with many .txt files. I would like to find string "X" in all of these files then I would like to copy the found strings into .txt files into a different folder.
So far I have tried :
@echo on
findstr /m "X" "%userprofile%\Desktop\New_Folder\New_Folder\*.txt"
if %errorlevel%==0 do (
for %%c in (*.txt) do (
type %%c >> "%UserProfile%\Desktop\New_Folder\%%~nc.txt"
pause
I do not understand the output %%~nc.txt part it's suppost to copy the changed .txt files to a new folder with the same name.
I would like to point out that string "X" is found in different places in the .txt file.
@ECHO OFF
SETLOCAL
SET "sourcedir=U:\sourcedir"
SET "destdir=U:\destdir"
SET "mystring=x"
FOR %%a IN ("%sourcedir%\*.txt") DO FINDSTR "%mystring%" "%%a">nul&IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 1 FINDSTR "%mystring%" "%%a">"%destdir%\%%~nxa"
GOTO :EOF
You would need to change the settings of sourcedir and destdir to suit your circumstances and set mystring appropriately, noting that you may have to adjust the findstr switches to accomodate case, literal and space-in-target-string.
Naturally, you could code sourcedir etc. directly as literals, but doing it this way means that the relevant strings need only be changed in one place.