I'm not sure about simple but here is something that appears to work. It has nested directory iterators to locate subdirectories two levels down from the start point.
Top tip: It's always a good idea to prefix any potentially harmful commands with ECHO during testing.
e.g Use
ECHO COPY src dest to see what would be copied without actually doing it.
@ECHO OFF
ECHO Process files two directory levels down from the start point
REM LEVEL_1\LEVEL_2\LEVEL_3\*.*
SET LEVEL_1=c:\dir1\dir2
SET FILESPEC=*.txt
PUSHD %LEVEL_1%
ECHO.
ECHO Start point is %CD%
ECHO Searching for files matching %FILESPEC%
ECHO.
REM enumerate LEVEL_2 directories
FOR /D %%A IN (%LEVEL_1%\*) DO (
REM enumerate LEVEL_3 directories
FOR /D %%B IN (%%A\*) DO (
PUSHD %%B
REM Show directory if it contains matching files
IF EXIST %FILESPEC% (
ECHO.
ECHO LEVEL_3 %%B
REM enumerate matching files in the LEVEL_3 subdirectory
FOR %%F IN (%FILESPEC%) DO (
REM ~nx modifier to get name and extension only
REM ~dp modifier to get drive and path only
ECHO COPY "%%~nxF" "%%~dpF.."
)
)
POPD
)
)
POPD
PAUSE
Alan.
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