Good that you got something you could use from that!

Actually, this is probably a good opportunity to show off macros in Notepad++.

First, do some (one-time) setup:

• Press the toolbar button for starting macro recording
• In an editing tab view, press an arrow key to move the caret (this is just a dummy action)
• Press the toolbar button for stopping macro recording
• Press the toolbar button for saving a recorded macro; give it the name Bat file from Find results and save it
• Exit Notepad++
• Restart Notepad++
• Locate your shortcuts.xml file and open it in Notepad++
• Do a find on Bat file from Find results and you should be left looking at something like this:

<Macro name="Bat file from Find results" Ctrl="no" Alt="no" Shift="no" Key="0">
    <Action type="0" message="2306" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />
</Macro>

• Replace the Action line with the following block, making the indent level of the block match that of the old Action line:

<Action type="3" message="1700" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />
<Action type="3" message="1601" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="(?-s)^Search.+\R" />
<Action type="3" message="1625" wParam="0" lParam="2" sParam="" />
<Action type="3" message="1602" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />
<Action type="3" message="1702" wParam="0" lParam="770" sParam="" />
<Action type="3" message="1701" wParam="0" lParam="1609" sParam="" />
<Action type="3" message="1700" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />
<Action type="3" message="1601" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="(?-s)^\tLine.+\R" />
<Action type="3" message="1625" wParam="0" lParam="2" sParam="" />
<Action type="3" message="1602" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />
<Action type="3" message="1702" wParam="0" lParam="770" sParam="" />
<Action type="3" message="1701" wParam="0" lParam="1609" sParam="" />
<Action type="3" message="1700" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />
<Action type="3" message="1601" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="\s\(\d+\shits?\)$" />
<Action type="3" message="1625" wParam="0" lParam="2" sParam="" />
<Action type="3" message="1602" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam='&quot; .' />
<Action type="3" message="1702" wParam="0" lParam="770" sParam="" />
<Action type="3" message="1701" wParam="0" lParam="1609" sParam="" />
<Action type="3" message="1700" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />
<Action type="3" message="1601" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="^\s+" />
<Action type="3" message="1625" wParam="0" lParam="2" sParam="" />
<Action type="3" message="1602" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam='copy &quot;' />
<Action type="3" message="1702" wParam="0" lParam="770" sParam="" />
<Action type="3" message="1701" wParam="0" lParam="1609" sParam="" />

• Save the shortcuts.xml file
• Exit Notepad++
• Restart Notepad++

That’s the end of the one-time setup. That will remain until you delete the macro created.

To use it, each time you need to:

• Run a Find-in-Files search that results in several hit files
• Copy and paste the Find-result panel results (per the earlier instructions on how to do that) into an empty Notepad++ tab (an empty file called test.bat might be appropriate!)
• Go to the Macro menu and choose Bat file from Find results from near the bottom; you should observe your file of search results has changed into a bunch of copy batch file commands (this step “runs” the macro consisting of several replacement operations!)
• Save the file
• Continue from the earlier instructions at step get a cmd prompt in the directory containing...

Automatically? No.

But with a “few” steps, not so hard:

• right-click in the Find result panel whitespace (anywhere)
• choose Select All from the popup menu
• press ctrl+c to copy
• create a new file called test.bat in your desired destination directory
• open test.bat in Notepad++
• press ctrl+v to paste into N++'s buffer for test.bat
• choose Edit (menu) > Line Operations > …and pick the topmost sort option

Your file buffer should now have a group of lines at the top that start out with Line and a group of lines at the bottom that start with Search. You want the grouping of lines in the middle, the ones that start out with actual pathnames and end with (# hits)

• manually remove the Line lines at the top of the file
• manually remove the Search lines at the bottom of the file
• run this regular-expression replace on the whole file: Find: (?-i)\s\(\d+\shits?\)(?=\R) Repl: " .
• run this regular-expression replace on the whole file: Find: ^\s+ Repl: copy "
• press ctrl+s to save test.bat
• get a cmd prompt in the directory containing test.bat
• type test at the prompt and press Enter
• WATCH THE CMD OUTPUT AS ALL OF YOUR FILES ARE COPIED INTO THAT SINGLE DIRECTORY!
• delete the test.bat file

Note that this won’t work so well if any files have the same name (just the name.ext part) which can happen. Be careful.

Wow. I usually don’t give explanations like that. I think I am channeling @guy038 while he is off fishing. :)