Scripting gurus in dos! Need your aid.

cw42

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I have a list of files. Ultimately, I want to move each of those files into a folder with the same name. I'm trying to challenge myself by learning this because I know it'll be useful for other things at work.

Background: For Vista Media Center I have movies, and to add its cover, I need to put each movie into its own folder, along with a jpg that has the cover of the movie.

C:/Movies/Movie1.avi... Movie2.avi, Movie3.avi

So far i've dumped a directory list in cmd, and am using Textpad to try and edit it... it looks like this:

12/20/2007 12:13 AM 1,057 Movie1.avi
12/20/2007 12:13 AM 1,057 Movie2.avi
12/20/2007 12:13 AM 1,057 Movie3.avi

Now obviously with this many files I could manually do all of this, but the point of it is that I want to "automate" it if I had many many more.

I'm guessing what I think I should do is try to do some stuff with regular expressions (i'm not that familiar with it), or macros (not that familiar either). Any suggestions?
 

AsianriceX

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Without giving you too much help...

dir /b will get rid of the extra crap

You could probably do this easily with vbscript.

good luck! :)