Powershell move all files and subfolders in a child folder to CURRENT directory

Question

I tried this, no error but no files have modved:

Get-ChildItem -Path "subfolder\" -Recurse |  Move-Item -Destination "."

Update: I don't want ABSOLUTE but RELATIVE path

Answer 1

Your answer will be something like:

Move-Item -Path 'subfolder\*' -Destination . -Force

This is relative and will process all hidden files en folders as well.

Answer 2

Set-Location 'C:\Users\username\Desktop\newFolder';
Get-ChildItem -Path 'C:\Users\username\Desktop\oldFolder\*.txt' -Recurse -File | Move-Item -Destination $(get-location).Path;

Answer 3

This may seem like a crazy attempt and to be honest the question isn't as comprehensive as I'd like. For example: I'm not sure if the folder will only every be 1 level deep or could be further down from the current directory. At any rate, I got something that seems to be working basically by not bothering with recursion:

$SubFolder = 'YourFolderName'
$SubFolder = Get-Item .\$SubFolder

Get-ChildItem $SubFolder |
ForEach-Object{
    $Destination = $_.FullName -Replace "$($SubFolder.FullName.Replace('\','\\'))", ".\"
    $NewParent   = $Destination -Replace $_.Name 

    Move-Item $_.FullName -Destination $NewParent    
}

I think the trick here is you have to move to the parent's parent, etc or however many levels back/up. So figure out what the new parent should be using the current directory syntax .\ . Once you have that you can move everything from the first level over not using recursion. Move-Item on a folder it knows to move the whole thing, and the files that are found in Sub-folder itself will obviously move to the new correct parent.

I had another working version that did use recursion, but this seems more concise and much to my surprise this seems to work. However, I'm not thrilled with it.