Batch file to perform a looped search based on the line items of a text file - windows

Question

I have been reading great posts in this forum and got close to what I want to do but couldn't figure out the exact code.
I want to create a windows batch file to do following:
Perform a looped search for each line item of a text file (this is a list of keyword) to locate files in a a specific directory
For this search partial match is okay.
Each time a file is found, move it to a predefined directory (e.g. C:\temp\search_results)
Thanks.

Answer 1

I'm not running Windows at the moment, so I can only post some ideas, not the solution.
1) Use for /f to iterate over file contents.
2) Use find "%Keyword%" %SourceDir% to get the list of matching files. You will have to parse out file names from the output of find.
2a) As an alternative, you can iterate over files in the source dir (with nested for) and call find for each file, discarding its output and using its exit code (%ERRORLEVEL%) to decide whether the file matches (it will return 0 if there is a match and nonzero if there is no match). Something like this:
for %%F in (%SourceDir%\*) do (
find "%Keyword%" %%F > nul
if not errorlevel 1 (echo File %%F matches) else (echo File %%F does not match)
)
3) Move matching files with move.

Answer 2

There are multiple problems.
FIND /i "%A%" ... can't work, the name of the FOR-Varibale is %%A
And the second proble: With FIND you check the content of the file not the name.
And you should use indention to avoid too much parenthesis.
You better try
FOR /F "tokens=*" %%A IN (%listfile%) DO (
FOR %%f in (%searchdir%\*) do (
set "filename=%%~f"
set replaced=!filename:%%A=!
if !replaced! NEQ !filename! (
echo !filename! contains '%%A'
)
)
)
It tries to replace %%A inside of the filename with .
If the replaced is not equal the filename, the filename must contain %%A

Answer 3

I wrote the following code but not sure if I am in the right track. Here is my setup:
list.txt file contents are (my keywords for the filename search) --
one
two
five
ten
six
f1 folder contains --
four.txt
one.txt
three.txt
I want to move the matching ones to F2 folder, but the code simplicity I am using echo instead.
My code is:
#ECHO OFF
SETLOCAL EnableDelayedExpansion
SET listfile=D:\batchtest\list.txt
SET searchdir=D:\batchtest\f1
FOR /F "tokens=*" %%A IN (%listfile%) DO (
FOR %%f in (%searchdir%\*) do (FIND /i "%A%" %%f
if errorlevel 1 (
echo Search failed) else (
echo Search successful
)
)
)
)
It is running but not finding matching filenames.
Thanks.