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to the parent directory Parent directory of what? Of the folder with the 1000 sub directories? @echo off &setlocal for /d %%i in (*) do ( for /f %%j in ('dir /a-d /b "%%~i\"^|find /c /v ""') do ( if %%j==2 move "%%~i" "%cd%\..\" ) ) ... saved in the folder with the sub directories you want to check...

Hi all! I have a folder that has about 1,000 sub folders in it. Some of them have only 2 files, the others have more than 2 files. I want to move all the ones with only 2 files, to the parent directory (or to a specific directory if that is easier). Thanks in advance - assuming this is even possible...

I was directed here when I asked a question about something but they weren't sure if this did what I need or not. What I have are two files, they are settings files for a program I use. I edit the settings on my end and I need end users to be able to put my files with theirs and run the bat to repla...

kwsiebert wrote:Is there anything else in your batch file? Both of the lines you posted give the correct results when I test them myself.

Nope just that, and it says The syntax is wrong.

I tried it again and it's working...I must have had an extra character in there

Yay! Thanks all.

Thanks guys, I will try it out. I should have mentioned I am not a coder of any type so all of this stuff for me is lots of googling and figuring things out So, Is should be able to use %~dp0 for the second path as well? The file is alwasy located where I place the bat file. I will try it out after ...

So what I have is a simple batch that copies a file in a folder into all the other folders within that folder. It works fine, but I want to use relative paths of the batch files location, therefore wherever I put the batch file it will copy the file into all the folders in that location. Here is my ...

Thank you for this I will check it out and report back

This is hard to explain but I currently have a folder full of files that I constantly have to rename to certain names. Currently I rename all my files with a batch renamer to set filenames that I then run a batch file to rename them, but it's tedious. I would like to be able to rename them to the se...