batch file Copy files with certain extensions from multiple directories into one directory

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I m a newbie  so bear with me     I am trying to copy all  doc files that I have scattered throughout several subdirectories of one main directory into another directory using a batch file   I have managed to get a filelist txt of all the files  there are hundreds  out of these directories that I want to copy using    C  Main directory sub directory  dir  b  s   doc  gt   C  Main directory sub directory filelist txt   What script would I use to xcopy those into one directory   Can I use some code that actually grabs those file names from filelist txt and xcopies them   For reference  I looked at the question below because it looked like it was doing what I want to do  but it didn t work for me   Using xcopy to copy files from several directories to one directory  Also  I would really like to understand this concept  so please break down the code for me to tell me what each item does  or at least include a link that will explain it

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Just use the XCOPY command with recursive option  xcopy c    doc k  mybackup  sy    s will make it  recursive

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Things like these are why I switched to Powershell  Try it out  it s fun   Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Include   doc           Copy-Item    FullName -destination x  destination

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you can also use vbscript  Set objFS   CreateObject  Scripting FileSystemObject   strFolder    c  test  strDestination    c  tmp   Set objFolder   objFS GetFolder strFolder   Go objFolder   Sub Go objDIR    If objDIR  lt  gt    System Volume Information  Then     For Each eFolder in objDIR SubFolders                Go eFolder     Next     For Each strFile In objDIR Files         strFileName   strFile Name         strExtension   objFS GetExtensionName strFile          If strExtension    doc  Then             objFS CopyFile strFile   strDestination  amp  strFileName         End If      Next       End If   End Sub    save as mycopy vbs and on command line  c  test gt  cscript  nologo mycopy vbs

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In a batch file solution  for  R c  source   f in    xml  do copy   f x  destination    The code works as such   for each file for in directory c  source and subdirectories  R that match pattern     xml  put the file name in variable   f  then for each file do copy file copy   f to destination x   destination    Just tested it here on my Windows XP computer and it worked like a treat for me  But I typed it into command prompt so I used the single  f variable name version  as described in the linked question above

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Brandon  short and sweet  Also flexible   set dSource C  Main directory sub directory set dTarget D  Documents set fType   doc for  f  delims     f in   dir  a-d  b  s   dSource   fType     do       copy  V    f    dTarget    2 gt nul     Hope this helps   I would add some checks after the copy  using       but i m not sure how  copy  v  reacts when it encounters an error   you may want to try this   copy  V    f    dTarget    2 gt nul   echo En error occured copying    F   amp  amp  exit  b 1   As the copy line  let me know if you get something out of it  in no position to test a copy failure atm

[windows] batch file Copy files with certain extensions from multiple directories into one directory

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