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Looking for a software that can find and remove based on parts of file names.

For example (file names):

"This is not, for this is right"
"This is not  cause it is wrong"

It would find these because they start with the same characters.
Then I want to remove all with wrong in them.

Is this possible?

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Are you asking to find all files that have a particular word in their name, and remove those? – soandos Mar 19 '12 at 18:45
What I need is a software that find files where the first X characters is the same and THEN remove files based on input from the user. For example: Software - europe Software - america Klipsch - europe Klipsch - america So the software would find these four because they share the same start characters and then I could remove all of them inclyding europe. – Mårten Cederholm Mar 19 '12 at 18:47
dir Software* does not give you that list? – soandos Mar 19 '12 at 18:49
Possible duplicate: Software to partially remove text from file names – Siva Charan Mar 19 '12 at 18:58
I can actually wanna REMOVE one of the files with partial same file name. But I wanna be able to CHOOSE – Mårten Cederholm Mar 19 '12 at 19:11

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It sounds like you just want to delete files that start with "This is not" and end with "wrong". If that is the case, you can use the following command line command:

DEL "This is not*wrong.*"
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I wanna find files within a set of files that share X character in the of the file. Within this selection I wanna delete all the files with "wrong" in the name – Mårten Cederholm Mar 19 '12 at 19:38
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Try this freeware - Everything: http://voidtools.com/ should do what you want and very quick and easy to use.

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