Hi

Wondering if someone can help me

I have a bunch of zip files (roughly 200) each nestled in there own subfolders.

I want to move them all to the parent folder.

Is there a way to automate it using the built in windows xp command line tools?

I cant seem to see a way to recursively go through the directories and move the files one folder up.

I dont want to keep the directory structure, just want to move all the files into one folder. (parent folder)

I tried robocopy but it keeps the folder structure also

Cheers.

Update:

Nevermind, found a solution. Searched the microsoft website and found out about the FOR command.

FOR /R C:\Directory %f IN (*.zip) DO move "%f" C:\Directory

Edited September 1, 200718 yr by cursive

I'm impressed. If we had more people like you around I wouldn't cry myself to sleep so often...

You can also use XXCOPY to "flatten" directories, and overall it's a lot better than ROBOCOPY.

cjl

A third way is to use the 'Search' function of explorer to find all .zip files in \Directory, and drag them from the 'Search Results' window to whereever you want.