Question

I have a job that periodically runs and archives files into a folder structure that looks like this:

ArchiveFolder
    TimestampFolder
        JobnameFolder
            job<timestamp>.xml

For a given job, I’d like to collect all xml files in the archive folder into a flat directory (no subdirectories, just all the files) without having to drill down into each one, examine for the proper job, then copy the file.

It seems there should be a fairly straigtforward way of doing this. Any suggestions?

EDIT: I guess I wasn’t clear here. The TimeStampFolder will have a name of something like 2011-07-24, the JobnameFolder will have a name like FooFeed or BarFeed, and the job file will have a name like job2011-07-24.xml. There are hundreds to thousands of TimeStampFolders, and each one may have one or more job folders in it. Given a specific job name, I want to collect all the files in all the directories that match that job type, and dump them into the local folder, with no subdirectories.

Answer 1

EDIT1:

SET JOB=JobName
SET OF=OutputFolder

START /wait NET USE Z: "\\ServerName\Sharename\ArchiveFolder" password password_here /USER:domainname\username /P:NO
PUSHD Z:\
FOR /F "USEBACKQ tokens=*" %%A IN (`DIR /b /a:d /s ^| FIND /I "%JOB%"`) DO (
 FOR /R %%F IN (%%A) DO (
  COPY /Y "%%~fF" "%OF%"
 )
)
POPD

It basically locates each subdirectory of ArchiveFolder that includes the JobName in it, then digs into each one that it finds to copy the files out of them.

EDIT2:

Added NET USE to access your network share to perform tasks on the files. If your local machine already has the UNC assigned to a driveletter, you can remove the NET USE command line and change Z: to the assigned driveletter.