Batchfile Help.

[n72.75]

I have about 20000 folders in a directory each folder containing one file all with the same file extension.

I was wondering if anyone had any particular insight into how to write a batch file to copy all those files into one directory?

As an added bonus, its on a Windows machine.

 

[garyw]

Have a look at robocopy. it should be possible to do something like

robocopy c:\sourcedir\*.ext c:\destination /s

/s=scan subdirectories.

I don't have robocopy in front of me but it'll certainly do the trick.

 

[Urwumpe]

Alternatively, installing the GnuWin32 tools to have "cp" at home should be helpful.

I think the command was:

cp -R root_dir/*.ext source_dir

(Important: capital -R not -r. The second copies the subdirectories as well.)

 

[orbekler]

Also Copy All To One can do the trick:

http://en.kioskea.net/download/download-9058-copy-all-to-one

 

[orb]

There's no need for any external programs.

Execute this command:

for /F "delims=" %i in ('dir /b /s *.ext') do copy /b "%i" "C:\Destination directory\"

Where ext is your file extension of files that need to be copied, and dir command is placed in single quotes/apostrophes. When called from inside the batch file instead of command line, the %i variable should be called %%i.