Re: Moving files with wildcard, keeping same subdirectory structure...

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Hmm - yes the utility could be writing a "cmd" or "script" file - either one
will work.
It is no oversight, as you put it, as a normal home user would not be
routinely doing as you state, and a network administrator in a business
environment is knowledgeable of how to write the appropriate "cmd" and/or
"script" file to accomplish the task at hand.
If indeed you are a home user with this need, then research the web, tons of
hits in Google will show you how to write a "cmd", "jscript" or "vbscript"
to accomplish this task.

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"Bruce Johnson" <bruce.at.YourAgentWithAHeart.com> wrote in message
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>I would like to MOVE files using wildcards (*.DOC or *.XLS) to a different
>subdirectory or drive. Is there a easy way of doing this?
> I have in the past I piped the directory, and then written batch files to
> md, copy, and then delete the files, but this is a pain, and sometimes has
> problems with hidden/system files. MOVE does not work across
> subdirectories, and then copy and paste in the windows gui interface won't
> keep the structure intact, just places everything into one directoy....
>
> I have used WINZIP in the past and this seems the best bet, but it
> requires the creation of the zip file, MOVING the files to the zip and
> then extracting to the new location. Very slow and HD intense. Not able to
> be done in a low space situation at all.
>
>
> Are there any utilities, if windows can't do this, that will allowm me to
> do this? This to me is a major oversite... I have been playing with
> windows since 1.1 (yes ONE dotONE!!) And still have nevver found a
> solution to this. Always dropped down to DOS (or now CMD) and done it at
> that level.
>
> Am I just not aware of something as simple as this?
>
>
> Thanks
> Bruce
>
>


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