Copy contents of a directory
Thursday, December 27, 2012
If you need to create a batch file in Windows to copy the content of a directory including its subdirectory, you can use 'xcopy'.
xcopy /s c:\source d:\target
These are some of the options you can use with the command
/s/e- recursive copy, including copying empty directories./v- add this to verify the copy against the original. slower, but for the paranoid./h- copy system and hidden files./k- copy read-only attributes along with files. otherwise, all files become read-write./x- if you care about permissions, you might want/oor/x./y- don't prompt before overwriting existing files./z- if you think the copy might fail and you want to restart it, use this. It places a marker on each file as it copies, so you can rerun the xcopy command to pick up from where it left off.
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