Copying Multiple files with specific extension

Question

So I have this little problem...

(Windows 10 Education N x64)

I am a GoldSrc engine developer and i am trying to achieve the following thing with Batch script or PowerShell, to do that automated task by itself instead of me manually picking every damn folder, eventually to spare time. :)

I am having directory structure as following:

Main(root) folder names "GoldSrc" is located at "Desktop"

So it goes like this:

Absolute Path:

Image from TREE VIEW:

[Main folder]
C:\Users\Andrej Poženel\Desktop\GoldSrc

[Source directory to copy from with recursive subdirectories]
C:\Users\Andrej Poženel\Desktop\GoldSrc\prefabs

[Directory to copy to]
C:\Users\Andrej Poženel\Desktop\GoldSrc\Maps

I want to lookup into subfolder named "prefabs" and search all subfolders in that directory for files that have file extension .map AND .rmf, so both filters together and copy them from its source location [../GoldSrc/prefabs/like_100_folders_here] to "GoldSrc" subdirectory named "Maps", everything shown on picture)

So i want the things look like this after this process:

C:\Users\myusername\Desktop\GoldSrc\Maps: blabla.map bleble.rmf bleble.rmf cacac.rmf adasdad.map ...

and not each file in its own directory like it is in source dir...

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

pushd "C:\Users\myusername\Desktop\GoldSrc"
for /f "delims=" %%a in ('dir /s /b /a-d .\prefabs\*.map .\prefabs\*.rmf')  do ECHO copy "%%a" ".\maps\"
popd

Should execute this.

First move to the required subdirectory, then perform a directory scan including subdirectories in basic form and excluding directorynames. For each returned line matching either of the filespecs, assign the name found to %%a, then copy that file to the required subdirectory.

then return to the original directory.

The commands generated will simply be echoed to the console. To actually execute the command (after checking), remove the ECHO keyword.

Note that this is a batch file, and not intended to be executed directly from the prompt.

Answer 2

If you want to do it the Powershell way, you can use the below code

gci "C:\Users\Andrej Poženel\Desktop\GoldSrc\prefabs" -filter *.map | %{
copy-item -Path $_.FullName -Destination "C:\Users\Andrej Poženel\Desktop\GoldSrc\Maps"}

gci "C:\Users\Andrej Poženel\Desktop\GoldSrc\prefabs" -filter *.rmf | %{
copy-item -Path $_.FullName -Destination "C:\Users\Andrej Poženel\Desktop\GoldSrc\Maps"}

or

gci "C:\Users\Andrej Poženel\Desktop\GoldSrc\prefabs" -recurse | ?{
!$_.PsIsContainer -and $_.Extension -match "map|rmf" } | %{
copy-item -Path $_.FullName -Destination "C:\Users\Andrej Poženel\Desktop\GoldSrc\Maps"}