I have the following folder structure:
FolderA
–Folder1
–Folder2
–Folder3
…
–Folder99
Folders 1 through 99 have files in them.
All I want to do is to copy ALL THE FILES into ONE FOLDER, basically do a FolderA copy, and wipe out Folders 1-99 keeping all the files.
I'd like to do it with Robocopy from cmd.exe if possible (Windows Server 2008)
Best Answer
Why use
robocopy
? It's a good tool for a specific task but this is not the one.You can simply use what
cmd
already gives you:This will essentially "flatten" your directory hierarchy.
for /r
will walk a directory tree recursively, looking for file names matching the given pattern. You can also specify the directory to start in:Within the loop it's just a simply copy of the file into a specified folder.