Question

I have no programming experience but would like to do the following:

I would like to be able to select what files I want to merge from up to ten folders. Once the selection was made…let’s say a,b & d the program would then merge a,b & d from folders 1-10 and then merge the output from the ten folders into 1 file…..

Is this possible and what would be the best way to program this?

Folder # 1

File A – Merge
File B – Merge
File C
File D – Merge

Folder # 2

File A – Merge
File B – Merge
File C
File D – Merge

Folder # 3

File A – Merge
File B – Merge
File C
File D – Merge

Folder # 4

File A – Merge
File B – Merge
File C
File D – Merge

Folder # 10

File A
File B
File C
File D

Answer 1

This is what you want to do?:

@Echo OFF

:: By Elektro H@cker

Set "folder=C:\Users\Administrador\Desktop\Test"

Echo Selected Folder: "%FOLDER%"
Set /P "files=Select files to merge (Example: "File1.txt" "File2.txt" "File3.txt") >> "


For %%@ in (%files%) Do (
    For /R "%FOLDER%" %%# in (*) DO (
        IF /I "%%@" EQU "%%~nx#" (call Set "Files_to_merge=%%Files_to_merge%% "%%#"+")
        )
    )
)


Copy /A %Files_to_merge:~0,-1% ".\output_file.txt"
pause&Exit

PS: Remember to change the format of Copy command, /A for text files, /B for binary files.

CMD Output:

>Selected Folder: "C:\Users\Administrador\Desktop\Test"
>Select files to merge (Example: "File1.txt" "File2.txt" "File3.txt") >>

>file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt

C:\Users\Administrador\Desktop\Test\file1.txt
C:\Users\Administrador\Desktop\Test\Nueva carpeta\file1.txt
C:\Users\Administrador\Desktop\Test\file2.txt
C:\Users\Administrador\Desktop\Test\Nueva carpeta\file2.txt
C:\Users\Administrador\Desktop\Test\file3.txt
C:\Users\Administrador\Desktop\Test\Nueva carpeta\file3.txt
        1 file(s) copied(s).

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Output_file.txt contents:

Content of "File1.txt" in first dir

Content of "File1.txt" in firstsub-dir

Content of "File2.txt" in first dir

Content of "File2.txt" in firstsub-dir

Content of "File3.txt" in first dir

Content of "File3.txt" in firstsub-dir