Batch script to copy/delete folders matching a certain name and preserving their directory tree

Question

I am wondering whether it is possible to write a batch script for CMD.EXE (Target system: MS Windows 2k3) for doing the following:

Let us have folder rootfolder containing a lot of files and directories. Some of the subdirectories (at different levels) might be called dirname. I would like to create a folder rootfolder2, copying the directory tree structure of rootfolder but containing only the folders dirname with their content. I would also like to delete the same folders after having them copied in rootfolder2

Example:

rootfolder
 `- dir1
 `- dir2
     `- filew
     `- dirname
         `- filey
 `- dirname
     `- file1
     `- dirx
         `- file2
 `- filez

And the output I'm looking for would be:

rootfolder
 `- dir1
 `- dir2
     `- filew
 `- filez

rootfolder2
 `- dir2
     `- dirname
         `- filey
 `- dirname
     `- file1
     `- dirx
         `- file2

Can I do this without having to write a console application in C/C++/Java/etc.

Thanks in advance, Joe

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Here's the answer to my question using simply xcopy and batch scripting:

@echo off
setlocal ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
set StartDir=Folder1
set BackupDir=Folder1 BK
mkdir "%BackupDir%"
call :ProcessDir "%StartDir%"
exit /b 0
:ProcessDir
    echo Processing directory "%~1"
    for /f "delims=" %%d in ('dir /ad /b "%~1"2^>nul') do (
        if "%%d"=="foldername" ( 
            xcopy /s /e /i "%~1\%%d" "%BackupDir%\%~1\%%d" 
            rmdir /S /Q "%~1\%%d"   
        ) else ( 
            call :ProcessDir "%~1\%%~d"
        )
    )
    exit /b 0

credits go to: recursive renaming file names + folder names with a batch file

Answer 1

Here's the answer to my question using simply xcopy and batch scripting:

@echo off
setlocal ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
set StartDir=Folder1
set BackupDir=Folder1 BK
mkdir "%BackupDir%"
call :ProcessDir "%StartDir%"
exit /b 0
:ProcessDir
    echo Processing directory "%~1"
    for /f "delims=" %%d in ('dir /ad /b "%~1"2^>nul') do (
        if "%%d"=="foldername" ( 
            xcopy /s /e /i "%~1\%%d" "%BackupDir%\%~1\%%d" 
            rmdir /S /Q "%~1\%%d"   
        ) else ( 
            call :ProcessDir "%~1\%%~d"
        )
    )
    exit /b 0

credits go to: recursive renaming file names + folder names with a batch file

That way it's done!