How do I re-use my wildcard match?

Question

There's some advanced file moving that needs to be done with the Windows command prompt; Is it possible to do it with wildcards?

Using regular expressions in UNIX, I could do something like this to find all files that begin with "s" and then do something else with them (echo).

ls s(.*) ; echo Found file \1 , needs to be moved to C:\unicorns\(\1)

I want to do something like that in Windows command prompt:

:: find all files that begin with "s" and then do something else with them (echo)
dir s(*) ; echo Found file \1

Related to Q http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31143039/batch-script-to-move-specific-subfolders-to-new-parent-folder-based-on-current-p/31144592#31144592 — rlb.usa, Jun 30 '15 at 17:29

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:51

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Do something like this:

for %%f in (*) do (echo %%f)

This will echo a list of files found in current directory. Find more description here

edited May 23 '17 at 11:51

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answered Jun 30 '15 at 17:03

norekhov

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