How do I copy files using Windows Batch?

Question

I have a directory with several subdirectories with files.
How can I copy all files in the subdirectories to a new location?

Edit: I do not want to copy the directories, just the files...

As this is still on XP, I chose the below solution:

 for /D %S IN ("src\*.*") DO  @COPY "%S\" "dest\"

Thanks!

Answer 1

Ok. With your edit that says you don't want the directory structure, i think you're going to want to use something like this:

for /F "usebackq" %s IN (`DIR /B /S /A-D SrcDir`) DO @(
    XCOPY %s DestDir\%~nxs
)

Answer 2

The Xcopy command should help here.

XCOPY /E SrcDir\*.* DestDir\

Or if you don't want any of the files in SrcDir, just the sub directories, you can use XCOPY in conjunction with the FOR command:

FOR /D %s IN (SrcDir\*) DO @XCOPY /E %s DestDir\%~ns\

Answer 3

robocopy "c:\source" "c:\destination" /E

Answer 4

If I understood you correctly you have a big directory tree and you want all the files inside it to be in one directory. If that's correct, then I can do it in two lines:

dir /s /b "yourSourceDirectoryTreeHere" > filelist.txt
for /f %f in (filelist.txt) do @copy %f "yourDestinationDirHere"

In a batch file vs. the command line change %f to %%f

Answer 5

If you want to keep the same folder structure on the other end, sounds as simple as XCOPY

xcopy c:\old\*.* d:\new\ /s

Use /e instead of /s if you want empty directories copied too.

Answer 6

 for /D %S IN ("src\*.*") DO  @COPY "%S\" "dest\"