Batch file Xcopy without manual F

xcopy copy does not know how you want to handle the destination. I would recommend you xcopy /? to display a list of switches. In your case your have two choices. If i remember correctly copy command use to copy 1file a time, xcopy however, can copy a whole folder plust subdir if correct switch is used

1. use copy command instead of xcopy
2. add /I switch right behind the /Y switch, this usually does the trick in copying the whole folder. I'm not specifically sure for file, but i bet it should silently/automatically copy it for you.

I managed to overcome that only by supplying that 'f' letter from the additional input file, as follows:

xcopy src dst < dummyf.txt

where dummyf.txt consists of a single letter 'f'

Hey guys,

I had to deal with a similar problem today and found this somewhere.


instead from a file "dummy.txt" you can echo 'f' - for file or 'd' for directory before the xcopy command using pipe symbol "|" on the same line.



echo f | xcopy source_folder\file.txt destination_folder\file.txt

or

echo d | xcopy source_folder\file.txt destination_folder\file.txt

Hope this helps!

Venny 【ツ】

Hi there,

I just tested, the dummy file works fine, but the "echo f" method doesn't seem to work.

-G

Sitting with the same problem, I've now also tested the above options, and the echo f | xcopy ... worked 100%.