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DivB
DivB

Reputation: 485

Move Multiple Files from Subfolders to Single Folder using Windows batch script

I have a requirement where the files are present in folders and the subfolders. The subfolders are dynamically created with current date and time. All the files should be moved to one destination folder without the subfolders.

Folder A:

1.txt
2.txt
Folder 20180907-1240-008
         3.txt
         4.txt
Folder 20180907-1128-001
         5.txt
         6.txt
Folder 20180906-0040-010
         7.txt
         8.txt

The destination folder should look like below

Folder B:

   1.txt
   2.txt
   3.txt
   4.txt
   5.txt
   6.txt
   7.txt
   8.txt

the below command works in command prompt

for /r %d in (*) do copy "%d" "F:\Tickets\Movement\390558-Harmony-LCOPYREC\B

My batch script looks like below

@echo off
cd /d "A"
for /r %%d in (*) do copy "%d" "F:\Tickets\B"

I have an error as below while executing in a batch script

\Tickets\B\*
The system cannot find the file specified.
        0 file(s) copied.

How do I make the script working

Upvotes: 2

Views: 13839

Answers (3)

Astick
Astick

Reputation: 311

If you want to do it from cmd then specify the parent folder path to after/n like for /r "C:\parentFolderPath\" %d in (*) do copy "%d" "D:\destinationFolderPath\" don't forget to put backslash at the end of the path.

Upvotes: 0

aditya
aditya

Reputation: 21

I used the following command in cmd to copy all m4a files from music folder and its all subfolder in another folder my-music. Don't forget "\" after your destination folder path.

for /r "c:\Users\A\Desktop\music" %x in (*.m4a) do copy "%x" "c:\Users\A\Desktop\my-music\"

Upvotes: 2

user7818749
user7818749

Reputation:

Almost right, no need to CD, just specify the parent path to folder after /r also ensure you double quote correctly and preferbly put a backslash at the end of a path to copy to:

for /r "C:\path to folderA" %%d in (*) do copy "%%d" "F:\Tickets\Movement\390558-Harmony-LCOPYREC\B\"

if you do not want to copy all files and just .txt for example, simply change your criteria to (*.txt)

for /r "C:\path to folderA" %%d in (*.txt) do copy "%%d" "F:\Tickets\Movement\390558-Harmony-LCOPYREC\B\"

Also, not sure which path you really want as destination, but you can do:

@echo off
set "dest=F:\Tickets\B\"
set "source=C:\some dir\A"
for /r "%source%" %%d in (*) do copy "%%d" "%dest%"

Copy and paste above code is into the batch file.

Upvotes: 2

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