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Idea Bak
Idea Bak

Reputation: 77

Moving files based on extensions into sub-folders

I'm looking a for loop that will go into the sub directories and move file with extensions mp4 and flv into a folder call Media. 

  Folder structure is as follows: 
  Folder 1 (Parent) (Where bat file would go)
    Folder 1 Sub (First Sub-folder)
      Media (Folder)            
      File_Name.Mp4
      File_Name.flv
    Folder 2 Sub (Second Sub-folder)
      Media (Folder)            
      File_Name.Mp4
      File_Name.flv
    Folder 3 Sub (Third Sub-folder)
      Media (Folder)            
      File_Name.Mp4
      File_Name.flv
      And so on..... I have about 1100 sub-folders in Folder 1 (parent folder

Thanks for taking a look at this.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 238

Answers (2)

Endoro
Endoro

Reputation: 37569

change the start folder Folder 1 (Parent) if necessary and try:

@echo off &setlocal
for /r "Folder 1 (Parent)" %%i in (*.mp4 *.flv) do (
    echo("%%~pi"|findstr /ri ".\\Media\\.$" >nul|| echo move "%%~fi" "%%~dpiMedia\%%~nxi"
)

Upvotes: 2

foxidrive
foxidrive

Reputation: 41234

This is designed to process all the 1st level folders in the parent, and move the mp4 and flv files into a folder called media that is inside the first level folder.

It is untested. Test it on some sample folders.

@echo off
for /f "delims=" %%a in (' dir /ad /b ') do (
pushd "%%a"
md Media 2>nul
for %%z in (mp4 flv) do move *.%%z Media 
popd
)

Upvotes: 2

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