Problem:
Need to find the keyword "ORDER, " in a large folder of txt files. Need to move all files that don't have this keyword to another folder.
How do I count the number string instances for all files in a directory?
Here is an example of looking for the string "ORDER, " in all txt files.
find /C "ORDER, " *.txt
How do I filter for items with a count of zero?
find /C "ORDER, " *.txt | findstr /c:": 0"
This is because each line in the output of find comes up:
---------- stats-2011-09-13.TXT: 0
---------- stats-2011-09-12.TXT: 12
What if I want to move all files from a list to some folder?
First output your results by doing redirection.
find /C "ORDER, " *.txt | findstr /c:": 0" > list.txt
You can open the file and strip out everything except the filename and extension. Once that's done, just use a for loop to move everything in list.txt.
for /f %a in ('type list.txt') do move %a no_orders
