Windows advanced file matching

findstr can do regexes under Windows just fine. I'd try:

dir /b | findstr /i "^[0-9][0-9]*\.pdf$"

The "dir /b" gives you the filenames only, one per line. The regex matches one or more digits followed by a period followed by your desired extension. For any extension, you could do:

dir /b | findstr "^[0-9][0-9]*\.[^\.]*$"

Obviously, if there are other cases more complicated, you can adjust the regex to suit. It doesn't have the full power of UNIX regexes but it's reasonably good.

The following command file shows how you can process each pdf file in the current directory that meets your "all-numeric" requirement.

@echo offsetlocal enableextensions enabledelayedexpansionfor /f "usebackq" %%i in (`dir /b ^| findstr /i "^[0-9][0-9]*\.PDF$"`) do (    set fspec=%%i    echo.Processing !fspec!)endlocal

The site http://www.robvanderwoude.com/batchfiles.php is a very good resource for CMD file magic (and many more things).

windows have provided you with an improved programming tool since win98. Its called vbscript.

Set objFS = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")strFolder = "c:\test"Set objFolder = objFS.GetFolder(strFolder)For Each strFile In objFolder.Files    strFileName = strFile.Name    strExtension = objFS.GetExtensionName(strFile)    strBase = objFS.GetBaseName(strFile)    If IsNumeric(strBase) Then 'check if numeric        WScript.Echo strBase            'continue to process file here.......    End If Next

for more information on vbscript, read the manual

I pipe dir result to grep :

dir [<Drive>:][<Path>] * | grep /regex/