Moving files to directory above Powershell

Question

I have the following paths :

C:\Customer\M\Morri\ft.txt
C:\Customer\M\Morri\dropbox\fed.xslx
C:\Customer\T\Tori\ss.txt
C:\Customer\T\Tori\dropbox\sed.xslx

I would like to move it up a level to match the following:

C:\Customer\Morri\ft.txt
C:\Customer\Morri\dropbox\fed.xslx
C:\Customer\Tori\ss.txt
C:\Customer\Tori\dropbox\sed.xslx

How would I do this?

So the whole structure should be kept the same minus the M & T level folder (again this can be named anything in reality).

What have you tried so far? Pleas show us some code and try to provide a [mcve]. — Paxz, Jan 09 '19 at 14:35

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 09 '19 at 14:57

I have tried the following so far:

Get-ChildItem .\*\*
$dir = 'C:\Customer'
Set-Location $dir
Get-ChildItem .\*\* |
Move-Item -Destination .\ -Verbose

This does do what I require but now I would like to delete the empty folders M and T (the folders I have just moved the files and sub-folders from).

How would i get it to recognize that I would only like to delete these?

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