I have different folders that can have up to 100 subdirectories with up to 50 files in each one. I would like to be able to run a batch file in a directories and have it go out to each directory and then move those files back into the main directory that the batch was run from.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Josh
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ok. something like this should do it:
@echo off
cd /d "c:\startdir"
for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('dir /a-d /b /s *.*') do move /y "%%a% .
I.e. do a dir listing of all files in all subdirs of the start point - we could make this in different ways, e.g. you could drag a dir onto the batch file on your desktop (in which case make line 2 as:
cd /d %1
and best to do a check:
if X%1==X echo No path supplied & exit /b
Sorry if any typos from phone...
If you wanted to avoid batch scripting you could look at the XXCOPY utility. Has a lot of great options for file copying, moving, archiving, etc.
http://www.xxcopy.com/inde
You original request was pretty simple and dragon-it has provided a good way to handle just that need, so this may be overkill. But thought I'd mention it in case you have other needs in this area from time to time. It has saved me a lot of work over the years.
~bp
you don't ned to specify a start dir... I have sugested a way you can do it by dragging a dir name onto the batch file icon or if you want to just remove the cd line and it will run from the directory where the batch file is (as long as it is a local drive - if you run it from a unc path from explorer the batch will see the windows system dir) - if you want it to work from a unc we can soon do that too.
Did you try it?
Steve
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by: tricky98Posted on 2009-09-18 at 14:17:17ID: 25370043
you could use the xcopy /e command.
Are all of the "top" level directories in the same place, or do they have a common name?
If all in one place then
xcopy source location destination location /e
if all have a common name then assume on the c drive called something like files001, files002 etc.
xcopy c:\files* desination /e