Script out many stored procedures at once?

Question

I found lots of methods for individually scripting out stored procedures, but I'd like to know if there's a way to do many (like 100 or so) at once.
Ideally, I'd like to execute something that would save all the procedures that start with 'dev_' to the file system somewhere, then delete the dev_ SP's from the database and leave the other SPs that actually get used.
Is that possible in one step?  Does any one have a link or an idea?
Thanks in advance!!

Answer 1

Actually, I did slight modifications after that - here is a version that really scripts them:
set nocount on
DECLARE @Test TABLE (Id INT IDENTITY(1,1), Code varchar(max))
INSERT INTO @Test (Code)
SELECT 'IF object_ID(N''[' + schema_name(schema_id) + '].[' + Name + ']'') IS NOT NULL
DROP PROCEDURE ['+ schema_name(schema_id) +' ].[' + Name + ']' + char(13) + char(10) + 'GO' +
OBJECT_DEFINITION(OBJECT_ID) + char(13) +char(10) + 'GO' + char(13) + char(10)
from sys.procedures
where is_ms_shipped = 0
DECLARE @lnCurrent int, @lnMax int
DECLARE @LongName varchar(max)
SELECT @lnMax = MAX(Id) FROM @Test
SET @lnCurrent = 1
WHILE @lnCurrent <= @lnMax
BEGIN
SELECT @LongName = Code FROM @Test WHERE Id = @lnCurrent
WHILE @LongName <> ''
BEGIN
print LEFT(@LongName,8000)
SET @LongName = SUBSTRING(@LongName, 8001, LEN(@LongName))
END
SET @lnCurrent = @lnCurrent + 1
END
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