{"id":12888,"date":"2022-10-02T08:18:08","date_gmt":"2022-10-02T02:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-copy-first-level-folder-and-consolidate-all-the-files-within-subfolders\/"},"modified":"2022-10-02T08:18:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T02:48:08","slug":"solved-copy-first-level-folder-and-consolidate-all-the-files-within-subfolders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-copy-first-level-folder-and-consolidate-all-the-files-within-subfolders\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved] Copy first level folder and consolidate all the files within subfolders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-58191830\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"58191830\" data-parentid=\"58190999\" data-score=\"1\" data-position-on-page=\"1\" data-highest-scored=\"1\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"1\" itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>I would use a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ss64.com\/nt\/for_d.html\" title=\"FOR \/D\"><code>for \/D<\/code> loop<\/a> to iterate the first-level sub-directories, then a nested <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ss64.com\/nt\/for_r.html\" title=\"FOR \/R\"><code>for \/R<\/code> loop<\/a> to iterate through all files in the immediate sub-directories, then use <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ss64.com\/nt\/copy.html\" title=\"COPY\"><code>copy<\/code><\/a> to copy each file individually in order to achieve the flat destination directory hierarchy. To avoid file name collisions (meaning that files with the same name appear in different source sub-directory hierarchy levels), an <code>if exist<\/code> directive can be used. So here is the code:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"lang-cmd prettyprint-override\"><code>rem \/\/ Loop through immediate sub-sirectories of main directory:\nfor \/D %%I in (\"D:\\MainDir\\*\") do (\n    rem \/\/ Temporarily change to the currently iterated sub-directory:\n    pushd \"%%~I\" &amp;&amp; (\n        rem \/\/ Iterate through all files in the current directory recusrively:\n        for \/R %%J in (\"*.*\") do (\n            rem \/* Create destination directory if necessary, which is named like\n            rem    the current directory, that is the first source sub-directory: *\/\n            2&gt; nul md \"D:\\CopyDir\\%%~nxI\"\n            rem \/\/ Temporarily change to the destination directory:\n            pushd \"D:\\CopyDir\\%%~nxI\" &amp;&amp; (\n                rem \/\/ Check for potential file name collisions:\n                if not exist \"%%~nxJ\" (\n                    rem \/\/ No collision, hence copy current file:\n                    copy \"%%~J\" \"%%~nxJ\"\n                ) else (\n                    rem \/\/ Collision, so return an error message:\n                    &gt;&amp;2 echo ERROR: \"%%~nxI\\%%~nxJ\" already exists!\n                )\n                rem \/\/ Return from destination directory:\n                popd\n            )\n        )\n        rem \/\/ Return from currently iterated source sub-directory:\n        popd\n    )\n)\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mt24\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>            <span class=\"d-none\" itemprop=\"commentCount\">1<\/span> <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n<p>solved Copy first level folder and consolidate all the files within subfolders <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] I would use a for \/D loop to iterate the first-level sub-directories, then a nested for \/R loop to iterate through all files in the immediate sub-directories, then use copy to copy each file individually in order to achieve the flat destination directory hierarchy. 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