Newsletter, sign up here. Major new tools, significant upgrades to current components and faster folder listings. See the V4 preview here. A May Microsft security update for Windows 10 conflicted with a major routine in FileBoss resulting in FileBoss not starting on some Windows 10 systems. Versions V3. You can read more about this at the page Windows Creators Conflict. Copying only specified files while still retaining their original folder structure is really easy using FileBoss.
In fact the ability to do just that is built right into almost every copy files type of routine such a Copy To, Backup if Newer, Copying to multiple folders and more. FileBoss will then search through the selected folder and all folders below it and copy every file that matches the given file patterns to the appropriate directory on the destination drive.
Note that if a required destination directory doesn't exist FileBoss will create it even if it needs to create multiple folders above it to match the structure of the source path. For complete control over which files are copied while retaining their place in the directory structure is to perform a search for the files you want to copy which will put the results in a Virtual Folder.
Using the Virtual folder select all the files or further narrow the files you want to copy by only selecting some of them and they use structured copying to to copy with precise accuracy.
And the virtual folder can be saved and used over and over again. For more about this advance copy method see Structured Copying. For this example we will use the Backup if Newer routine but it works the same in most other copy dialogs.
Specific files and groups of files can be excluded from the search by preceding the files with a minus sign, '-'.
If the name actually begins with a minus sign, simply put another in front of it, e. While the drop down list box will remember the most recently used patterns, even when FileBoss is closed, you can use predefined. Displays a pop up menu of predefined file patterns that can be quickly added to the 'Patterns' field to the left.
You can edit this drop down menu to include the file patterns you use the most use the 'Edit Menu' option at the bottom. Technically Windows considers a directory to hold file system objects such as files and other directories.
Folders can be directories but they can also hold non-file system objects such as list of printers or be virtual such as the Recycle Bin. Over the years the use of folder has become so common to refer to directories too that we don't make a strict distinction between a directory and a folder in the documentation.
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If you want to keep empty directories from the source tree, skip the --prune-empty-dirs option:. If you do not want symlinks, modification dates, file permissions, owners etc. You can use find and cpio in pass through mode.
This will find all. Recursive globs do not match hidden files and folders, and the some implementations follow symlinks while others do not. If your shell doesn't support recursive globs, or if you'd prefer not to use them, you can do the following:. If you have file names with spaces, add options -print0 and -0 like suggested in one of the comments:. Use relative paths. This means that the full path names specified on the command line are sent to the server rather than just the last parts of the filenames.
This is particularly useful when you want to send several different directories at the same time. For example, if you used this command:. These extra path elements are called "implied directories" i. Assuming you want to replicate this structure from.
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Learn more. Copy specific file type keeping the folder structure Ask Question. Asked 8 years, 6 months ago. Active 10 months ago. Viewed k times. Improve this question. It also can only copying specified type of files or selective filenames. That's only two simple commands, but I wouldn't recommend this, unless the files that you DON'T need to copy are small.
That's because this will copy ALL files and then remove the files that are not needed in the copy. Of course you could pipe the output from the first tar into the 2nd, but seeing it work in steps is easier to understand and explain. Someone else can add it, hopefully. Tar gnutar is available on Windows too, but I'd probably use the xcopy method myself on that platform. Then you can extract that archive to whatever location you like.
This preserves the original file structure. I needed to add missing album picture files to my mobile phone without having to recopy the music itself. Fortunately the directory structure was the same on my computer and mobile! This technique can be used to copy file types as well.
If the files all had different names, you could choose to extract all files to a single directory. Additional command line parameters can archive multiple file types. For those using Altap Salamander 2 panels file manager : in the Options of the Copy popup, just specify the file names or masks. I am fine with regular expressions, lazy and averse to installs, so I created a batch file that creates the directory and copies with vanilla DOS commands.
Seems laborious but quicker for me than working out robocopy. You end up with a batch file like so:. To do this with drag and drop use winzip there's a dir structure preserve option. Simply create a new. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. How to copy a directory structure but only include certain files using windows batch files Ask Question.
Asked 12 years, 11 months ago. Active 1 year, 2 months ago. Viewed k times. Improve this question. M4N M4N Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. I also tried?. Niels Brinch Yes, you should be able to do that. What is the exact command line you are using?
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