merging all files into one folder from different folders

Question

I want my files to be copied in one folder, the files came from different folder but in the same location.

I run this code in CMD but it copies the folder into new directory.

xcopy "D:\NBS Contents\Latest Images\*.jpg" "D:\output" /s

The latest images folder has many folders containing images files. I want to combine them into one folder.

You may want to check my answer to the other question. I've made an application that does this, and it handles unexpected situations too, plus shows stats, and has some command-line niceties.

Sathya · Answer 1 · 2010-09-24 14:50:36Z

So in cmd you'll to have to do the below steps

D:
mkdir output
cd "D:\NBS Contents\Latest Images\"
for /r %f in ( "*.jpg" ) do copy /y "%f" "D:\output"

Step by step explaination:

D: - switches to D: drive
mkdir output - Creates output directory
cd "D:\NBS Contents\Latest Images\" - Changes current directory to the one in quotes
for /r %f in ( "*.jpg" ) do copy /y "%f" "D:\output" - Recursively, for every jpg file, copy the source file to d:\output. The /y switch suppresses Are you sure you want to overwrite prompt, you can remove the switch if you want the prompt.

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