Copying a folder, but excluding specified sub-directories - command-line

Question

I need help with copying a folder, but doesn't copy sub-folders with the names that are specified in a text file. The text file is located:
U:\Directory\Directory\Textfile.txt
I need to copy folders that are specified in the text file, but here's the catch, after
U:\Directory\Directory\ the folders have random names, which is why they are stored in the text file. Example of what the directory tree looks like:
U:\Directory\Directory\"12345"\Pickle <--- Pickle is the folder I want.
U:\Directory\Directory\"22345"\Pickle
^
|
This is a random name specified in the text file.
They all have the folder Pickle inside, which is what I'm after. Inside the text file are names of all the folders that are after: U:\Directory\Directory\. The text file looks like this:
1335232 <--- This is the name of the random folders.
1242334 <--- They all are located:
2342312 <--- U:\Directory\Directory\~HERE~
(etc...)
The folders should be copied from U:\Directory\Directory\"12345"\Pickle to U:\Output\
The names for all folders are numbers if this helps. Thank you Peter for trying to help me, I'm sorry if I was unclear. I hope this clears things up!

Answer 1

#ECHO OFF
SETLOCAL
SET relroot=u:\directory
SET subdir=randomsubfoldername
::
FOR /f %%i IN (
'dir /b /ad %relroot%\%subdir% ^|findstr /b /e /v /g:textfile.txt '
) DO ECHO %relroot%\%subdir%\%%i
The DIR command lists the directorynames (/ad) in basic form (.b) - that is, name-only. The findstr finds lines that do not (/v) begin (/b) and end (/e) with the lines in the file filename (/g:filename)
With the revised information, and noting that the original information clearly showed the penultimate directory name was the same and selection occurring on the leaf, and the single example now provided...
#ECHO OFF
SETLOCAL
ECHO Here is a test structure
ECHO -----------------------------
DIR /s /b /ad u:\directory
ECHO ------Here is the textfile---------
TYPE u:\directory\textfile.txt
ECHO ====Method 1==============
FOR /f %%i IN (u:\directory\textfile.txt) DO (
DIR /s /b /ad u:\directory | FINDSTR /r ".*\\%%i\\.*" | FINDSTR /v /r ".*\\%%i\\.*\\.*"
)
ECHO ====Method 2==============
FOR /f %%i IN (u:\directory\textfile.txt) DO (
FOR /f %%s IN (
'DIR /s /b /ad u:\directory ^| FINDSTR /r ".*\\%%i\\.*" ^| FINDSTR /v /r ".*\\%%i\\.*\\.*"'
) DO ECHO selected : %%s
)
ECHO ====Method 3 - to ignore ...\target\subdir that has any subdir ==============
FOR /f %%i IN (u:\directory\textfile.txt) DO (
FOR /f %%s IN (
'DIR /s /b /ad u:\directory ^| FINDSTR /r ".*\\%%i\\.*" ^| FINDSTR /v /r ".*\\%%i\\.*\\.*"'
) DO (
FOR /f %%c IN ( 'DIR /a:d %%s ^|FIND /c "<" ' ) DO IF %%c==2 ECHO SELECTED : %%s
)
)
Here's the run results:
Here is a test structure
-----------------------------
u:\directory\another
u:\directory\yetanother
u:\directory\572
u:\directory\another\yetanother
u:\directory\another\yetanother\572
u:\directory\another\yetanother\1572
u:\directory\another\yetanother\5722
u:\directory\another\yetanother\572\wantthis
u:\directory\another\yetanother\572\andthis
u:\directory\another\yetanother\572\maywantthisidontknow
u:\directory\another\yetanother\572\572
u:\directory\another\yetanother\572\maywantthisidontknow\ignore
u:\directory\another\yetanother\1572\ignorethis
u:\directory\another\yetanother\5722\ignorethis
u:\directory\yetanother\572
u:\directory\yetanother\572\wantthis
u:\directory\572\wantthis
------Here is the textfile---------
23
753309
572
====Method 1==============
u:\directory\another\yetanother\572\wantthis
u:\directory\another\yetanother\572\andthis
u:\directory\another\yetanother\572\maywantthisidontknow
u:\directory\another\yetanother\572\572
u:\directory\yetanother\572\wantthis
u:\directory\572\wantthis
====Method 2==============
selected : u:\directory\another\yetanother\572\wantthis
selected : u:\directory\another\yetanother\572\andthis
selected : u:\directory\another\yetanother\572\maywantthisidontknow
selected : u:\directory\another\yetanother\572\572
selected : u:\directory\yetanother\572\wantthis
selected : u:\directory\572\wantthis
====Method 3 - to ignore ...\target\subdir that has any subdir ==============
SELECTED : u:\directory\another\yetanother\572\wantthis
SELECTED : u:\directory\another\yetanother\572\andthis
SELECTED : u:\directory\another\yetanother\572\572
SELECTED : u:\directory\yetanother\572\wantthis
SELECTED : u:\directory\572\wantthis
The two FINDSTR regex structures are
FINDSTR /r ".*\\%%i\\.*"
Any number of any characters, \, the target string, \, any number of any characters
FINDSTR /v /r ".*\\%%i\\.*\\.*"
Any number of any characters, \, the target string, \, any number of any characters,\, any number of any characters
BUT - the /v on FINDSTR means except lines matching...
I can make little sense of copy the sub-folder from a parent folder with a random name.
If the requirement is to copy into the selected directory from that directory's parent directory, then after verifying that the target directories being displayed by ECHO SELECTED : %%s replace ECHO SELECTED : %%s with
(
pushd %%s
xcopy ..\* . >nul
popd
)
The >nul suppresses xcopy reports
If it means something else, more information is required.