windows batch file script to pick random files from a folder and move them to another folder

Question

I need a batch script to randomly select X number of files in a folder and move them to another folder. How do I write a windows batch script that can do this?

Answer 1

(I'm assuming that your X is known beforehand – represented by the variable $x in the following code).

Since you weren't adverse to a PowerShell solution:

Get-ChildItem SomeFolder | Get-Random -Count $x | Move-Item -Destination SomeOtherFolder

or shorter:

gci somefolder | random -c $x | mi -dest someotherfolder