ok so Im writing a bat file to move everything from a folder name Docs (F:\Docs) from an external drive to the hard drive my computer (C:\Docs). I wrote this batch file but my problem is its not moving the subfolders in F:\Docs its only moving the files in that folder to C:\Docs

@echo off
goto start
:Redo
echo Press any key to repeat to move Docs Folder into C:\Docs...
pause>null
:Start
F:
echo Press any key to move Docs Folder into C:\Docs...
pause>null
echo Press any key to copy all contents in the folder Docs to the C:\Docs...
pause>null
C:
mkdir C:\Docs
goto Performcopy
erformcopy
copy F:\Docs C:\Docs
goto Redo

so when this batch file is done I want all the files and the subfolders in C:\Docs
Can anyone tell me how to move the subfolders too =)

hahaha part of my code made a face =) but the code is : performcopy but with out the space

You'll need a FOR loop:
http://www.computerhope.com/forhlp.htm

And a DIR command to get the list of sub directories:
http://www.computerhope.com/dirhlp.htm


Maybe:
FOR /R F:\Docs %%f IN (dir %%f) DO copy %%f C:\Docs\%%f

Can't you just use wildcards(*) or is that Linux only?

Use "xcopy F:\Docs C:\Docs". Done.

It's equivalent to "cp -R" in linux, which copies recursively files in the entire directory tree.

I expected there to be a flag on the copy man to fulfill that purpose but didn't find one. I knew there had to be a recursive copy somewhere.

xcopy - now there's a blast from the past.


Could you not just use explorer? Or have you no OS installed?

i have a similar batch i need to run. i have 1600 folders containing 2 files. i need to copy just those files in each folder to another single folder. i cannot program my way out of a paper bag so i need help. any ideas?

FOR /R C:\test1 %%f IN (*.*) DO copy "%%f" "C:\test2\%%~nf%%~xf"

Just replace "C:\test1" to the directory you want to copy from and change "C:\test2\" to the directory you want to copy to. It will copy all files found in test1 (including subdirectories) in the directory of test2. It will overwrite existing files as it copies.

holy copy batchman, that worked!