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Move folders in command line with specific string

How to move folders in command line without selecting manually the folders? Manually moving folders is quite ideal if there are two or three folders that needs to be moved. But if the folders are quite a lot and doing it manually is a bit tedious; besides chances are there might be folders that will be missed out. Command lines and some basic editing in notepad can ease the process of moving folders it can be run via batch file or just simply enter the command at the command prompt window. Assume that all folders have the word “old-data” as part of its folder name. It can be any string as long as it’s common to all the folders that needs to be moved or archived. First step, is to open a command prompt window then change directory to the folders. Example: c:\cd sales_data Then at sales_data directory type: dir *old-data* /s/b > file_old_data.txt replace old-data with any string that is common to all folders. * is used between the string, whi