How can I move all the files from one folder to another using the command line

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What is the best command to move all files from one folder to another   I want to do this from within a batch file

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Be sure to use quotes if there are spaces in the file path:

move "C:\Users\MyName\My Old Folder\*" "C:\Users\MyName\My New Folder"

That will move the contents of C:\Users\MyName\My Old Folder\ to C:\Users\MyName\My New Folder

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use move then move  lt file or folder gt   lt destination directory gt

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Lookup move    on Windows and man mv on Unix systems

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You can use move for this  The documentation from help move states   Moves files and renames files and directories   To move one or more files  MOVE   Y    -Y   drive   path filename1       destination  To rename a directory  MOVE   Y    -Y   drive   path dirname1 dirname2     drive   path filename1 Specifies the location and name of the file                           or files you want to move    destination             Specifies the new location of the file  Destination                           can consist of a drive letter and colon  a                           directory name  or a combination  If you are moving                           only one file  you can also include a filename if                           you want to rename the file when you move it     drive   path dirname1  Specifies the directory you want to rename    dirname2                Specifies the new name of the directory      Y                      Suppresses prompting to confirm you want to                           overwrite an existing destination file     -Y                     Causes prompting to confirm you want to overwrite                           an existing destination file   The switch  Y may be present in the COPYCMD environment variable  This may be overridden with  -Y on the command line   Default is to prompt on overwrites unless MOVE command is being executed from within a batch script      See the following transcript for an example where it initially shows the qq1 and qq2 directories as having three and no files respectively  Then  we do the move and we find that the three files have been moved from qq1 to qq2 as expected   C  Documents and Settings Pax My Documents gt dir qq1  Volume in drive C is Primary  Volume Serial Number is 04F7-0E7B   Directory of C  Documents and Settings Pax My Documents qq1  20 01 2011  11 36 AM     lt DIR gt             20 01 2011  11 36 AM     lt DIR gt              20 01 2011  11 36 AM                13 xx1 20 01 2011  11 36 AM                13 xx2 20 01 2011  11 36 AM                13 xx3                3 File s              39 bytes                2 Dir s   20 092 547 072 bytes free  C  Documents and Settings Pax My Documents gt dir qq2  Volume in drive C is Primary  Volume Serial Number is 04F7-0E7B   Directory of C  Documents and Settings Pax My Documents qq2  20 01 2011  11 36 AM     lt DIR gt             20 01 2011  11 36 AM     lt DIR gt                             0 File s               0 bytes                2 Dir s   20 092 547 072 bytes free    nbsp   C  Documents and Settings Pax My Documents gt move qq1   qq2 C  Documents and Settings Pax My Documents qq1 xx1 C  Documents and Settings Pax My Documents qq1 xx2 C  Documents and Settings Pax My Documents qq1 xx3    nbsp   C  Documents and Settings Pax My Documents gt dir qq1  Volume in drive C is Primary  Volume Serial Number is 04F7-0E7B   Directory of C  Documents and Settings Pax My Documents qq1  20 01 2011  11 37 AM     lt DIR gt             20 01 2011  11 37 AM     lt DIR gt                             0 File s               0 bytes                2 Dir s   20 092 547 072 bytes free  C  Documents and Settings Pax My Documents gt dir qq2  Volume in drive C is Primary  Volume Serial Number is 04F7-0E7B   Directory of C  Documents and Settings Pax My Documents qq2  20 01 2011  11 37 AM     lt DIR gt             20 01 2011  11 37 AM     lt DIR gt              20 01 2011  11 36 AM                13 xx1 20 01 2011  11 36 AM                13 xx2 20 01 2011  11 36 AM                13 xx3                3 File s              39 bytes                2 Dir s   20 092 547 072 bytes free

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move c  sourcefolder c  targetfolder  will work  but you will end up with a structure like this  c  targetfolder sourcefolder  all the subfolders  amp  files   If you want to move just the contents of one folder to another  then this should do it   SET src folder c  srcfold SET tar folder c  tarfold  for  f   a IN   dir  quot  src folder  quot   b   do move  quot  src folder    a quot   quot  tar folder   quot   pause

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robocopy seems to be the most versatile   See it s other options in the help  robocopy    robocopy SRC DST  E  MOV

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This command will move all the files in originalfolder to destinationfolder   MOVE c  originalfolder   c  destinationfolder    However it wont move any sub-folders to the new location    To lookup the instructions for the MOVE command type this in a windows command prompt   MOVE

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OMG I Got A Quick File Move Command form CMD 1 Command will move All Files and Sub Folders into another location in 1 second    check command  C  user gt move  quot your source path  quot   quot your destination path quot     Hint   For move all Files and Sub folders  C  user gt move  quot f  wamp www quot   quot f  wapm 3 2 www old Projects quot   check image  you can see that it s before i try some other code that was not working due to more than 1 files and folder was there  when i try to execute code that is under line by red color then all folder move in 1 second  now check this image  here Total 6 7GB data moved in 1 second    you can check date of post and move as well as Folder name   i will soon make a windows app that will do same

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You can use the command move  move  lt source directory gt   lt destination directory gt    Reference

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