search given set of files and copy to another dire

Question

There is a given set of file names in a needToFind.txt file such as:

myImage1.jpg , theImage.jpg, parisImage.jpg (This is a flie that I will format it does not matter filee names are seperated with comma, or line break)

And there is a folder named /MyImageFolder, which contains lets say 1000 images, and also contains myImage1.jpg , theImage.jpg, parisImage.jpg

I want to find those given images and copy them to another directory.

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I want to search given file names in needToFind.txt, in a directory/folder MyImages, which contains many images. And copy founded images to another directory/folder, such as MyGivenSetOfImages.

Please help, this will save my life.

Thanks

Answer 1

Format needToFind.txt to have one file name per line. The following simple batch script should work.

@echo off
cd "\MyImageFolder"
for /f "usebackq eol=: delims=" %%F in ("needToFind.txt") do copy "%%~F" "\anotherFolder"

It can be done on the command line without a batch file: just change each %% to %.

Answer 2

I guess the trickiest part is to read the file

If you can , i would advice you to create text files with all names in a single lime seperated by a comma.

refer how to read a text file through batch for that

Later you could simply use the extracted variables in a simple copy command.

i could have provided a skeleton , but on a phone. I hope this helps open for questions