Need to sort files by extension and distribute to folders with CMD, VBS, BAT [closed]

Question

Have a Exec that likes to download the internet. Free files and such. Of course its all mixed and in a download directory. I know that one of the admins before me had a script written but took it with him.

Can anyone steer me in the right direction on how to sort the files by extension and dump those into certain folders?

Answer 1

If you want a 'pure' batch file solution, copy the following code into a file and run it. It is designed so that the bat file will reside in an upper level directory, but it will process the files in the current directory.

@echo off
SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION

for /f "delims=\" %%i in ('dir c:\test\*.* /l /b') do (
echo "%%i"
set str=%%~xi
IF NOT EXIST ".\!str:.=!" mkdir ".\!str:.=!"
copy /y "%%i"  ".\!str:.=!\%%i"
del /f "%%i"
)

For example to use,

• put the bat file in c:\
• open a command prompt
• cd into c:\files
• run the bat file.

Let me know if you need any more info.

Answer 2

In vbScript you'll want to look at the FileSystemObject.

http://www.devguru.com/technologies/vbscript/quickref/filesystemobject.html

You may also want to consider looking at a Powershell Script if that's an option to you. This site will map the FSO methods to new PowerShell Cmd-lets.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee692757.aspx