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Many thanks foxidrive - I'm looking forward to trying that out next time I have a big batch of files to clean up and organize.

In batch files like this simple example mx.cmd md "%1 %2" move *%1?%2*.* "%1 %2" move *%2?%1*.* "%1 %2" move *%2,?%2*.* "%1 %2" The move command often moves files that it shouldn't because the real file names don't match *%1*%2*.* but the short file names do. ...