How to robocopy to copy only files without creating parent folder tree of the file

Question

I am using robocopy to copy certain files from a long hierarchy-ed folder structure. Eg: *.properties files. They may reside in very deep level of the directory structure (eg C:\\a\\v\\b\\g\\f\\aa.properties ). Now I want to copy these properties files to another keeping only the top most parent folder (eg: destination folder structure will be a\\aa.properties ); I have used /S option to do so but it includes the parents too. Below is the batch file I've tried:

@echo off 

::Author = SHUBHENDU

echo Copying files from %1 to %2


set source=%1
set destination=%2

set list=abc def
(for %%a in (%list%) do (
   echo Copying files from  %%a
   ROBOCOPY %source%\%%a %destination%\%%a *_en.properties /S
))

Source directory (sample):

F:.
│   temp.bat
│
└───ss
    ├───asd
    │       ss_en.properties
    │
    └───asdfsdsd
        │   aa_en.properties
        │
        ├───dd
        │       asdsa.txt
        │
        └───ff
                ff_en.properties

Required destination directory:

F:.
├───asd
│       ss_en.properties
│
└───asdfsdsd
        aa_en.properties
        ff_en.properties

Answer 1

You have to make sure the source is not the same as the destination.

NOTE!!! I have not recreated your scenario, so this is untested, just amended your code. I will fix the code based on your errors.

@echo off

set source=%1
set destination=%2

for %%F in (%destination%) do set destination="%%~fF"

for /r %source% %%F in (.) do if "%%~fF" neq %destination% ROBOCOPY %source%\%%F %destination%\%%F *_en.properties /S