Robocopy to copy each source subfolder to different destination folder

Question

I have a folder structure like this:

Source

C:\Data
        Data1_timestamp
        Data2_timestamp
        Data3_timestamp
        Data4_timestamp

Destination

D:\Data
        Data1
        Data2
        Data3
        Data4

Is it possible to use robocopy to copy each source subfolder to the corresponding destination subfolder (eg. Data1_timestamp would be copied to Data1, Data2_timestamp to Data2 etc)

Destination after the copy

D:\Data
        Data1\Data1_timestamp
        Data2\Data2_timestamp
        Data3\Data3_timestamp
        Data4\Data4_timestamp

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 07 '12 at 18:47

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No, but you could carry this out with a combination of a for command and robocopy. Plus a bit of a substring operation using %MYVAR:~0,5%

answered Sep 07 '12 at 18:47

Simon Catlin

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I was afraid of that. Also thanks for the suggestion, but my second choice will be VBScript or PowerShell. Thanks again. – Anonimista Sep 07 '12 at 18:51
Powershell will eat this up. – Simon Catlin Sep 07 '12 at 18:55
Here is my first draft: gci c:\Data | %{copy $_.FullName "d:\Data\$($_.Name.Split((`"_`"),2)[0])"} – Anonimista Sep 07 '12 at 19:50

Robocopy to copy each source subfolder to different destination folder

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