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Given a folder with several subdirectories, I want to move their contents to the top folder and remove the subdirectories. How can I do that on the Windows command line?

E.g. I have a folder named "Jack" in D:. It contains several subfolders and each subdirectory contains additional files (text files, PDF files, etc.), but no directories. I want to move all subfolders' files into "Jack", and remove the then empty subdirectories. If duplicate file found do replace or do nothing, I need only one copy I need to do this repeatedly, so a batch solution would be best.

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How do you want to deal with naming collisions? Will there be D:\Jack\A\1.pdf and D:\Jack\B\1.pdf? – Daniel Beck♦ Oct 9 '12 at 5:18
thanks, I am using these at office, File names are different, If same filename found just replace, Thanks in advnce Mr. Beck – Nikhil Oct 9 '12 at 6:39
"If same filename found just replace"... to what? – Siva Charan Oct 9 '12 at 6:51
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You can use xcopy to do this. Type xcopy /? at the command prompt for usage information. – martineau Oct 9 '12 at 7:17
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Put this in a batch script. 

for /f "delims==" %%k in ('dir D:\Jack\*.* /s /b') do copy "%%k" D:\Jack\ /Y
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