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Xcopy for other os [closed]
I am loocking for an equivalent of windows's xcopy /s /q /e /h /i folder0 folder1 for other os(mainley the most common like linux and unix). This is for exportability on a (python) script I am writing....
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XCOPY not working when run from Userdata in Windows ec2
This is a bizzare issue. For whatever reason xcopy is not working under these conditions:
Windows Server 2022, EC2Launch v2
Run from Userdata
When I log in and run it manually it works just fine. ...
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save xcopy error message in a variable in powershell
I want to assign to a variable the error message printed by an xcopy command from a powershell script.
If I simply assign the command to a variable, it only saves the last line, where it says the ...
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Not Sure How to Proceed
I am running a NVR on my pc and I create a folder everyday with the date as the folder name like so...(013124) C:/user/profile/videos/013124. At 1202AM I Copy this folder to a network share for backup....
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Default sort order of xcopy
I'm referring to a batch script to create a list of files having file timestamp greater than specified date and store the list of pathnames in a text file. I want to use this to feed a process that ...
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Can't copy folder with permissions to NAS share
I wrote a powershell script that changes the ACL of a network folder. We used to run this script on local drives and on a network share just fine. Recently, we migrated to Windows Server 2019 and ...
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Invalid number of parameters xcopy
I am creating a pipeline script in my jenkins server(windows). I am trying to copy from SOURCE to DESTINATION using following command.
I am getting an error 'invalid number of parameters xcopy /O /X /...
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XCopy specific txt files in multiple subfolders without subfolder in path
I have a batch file to copy over files from Web folder to my local folder.
Web folder destination look like this:
G:\program files\2023\subfolder_1\1.txt
G:\program files\2023\subfolder_1\1_total.txt
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How to batch copy a list of folders and its file contents from a text file into a new folder in windows
I have a folder with approximately 7000 subfolders. I am interested in copying 1500 of those subfolders and their file contents into a new folder.
The closest I have got is copying the subfolders file ...
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why does the list switch allow xcopy to work?
I have a batch script that uses xcopy to copy a large number of files. For a while, the following setup worked fine:
set source=<path_to_source_files>
set dest=<path_to_destination>
xcopy ...
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Batch File Unable To Compare Two String Variables
The company I work at utilizes a batch file to backup user profiles. The script originally used robocopy, but now also uses xcopy in some cases. We run this script manually when re-imaging users to ...
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using for loop to copy selected files in directory and subdirectories to new directory with the same structure
for /r "C:\Users\bui\Desktop\Annotation Traing Package\test1" %i in (*03.json) do copy "%i" "C:\Users\bui\Desktop\Annotation Traing Package\test2"
i want to copy all 03....
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How do I write a batch programe to copy a set of folders with same suffix and their files from a server to a client?
I want to write a batch program to copy some deeply nested folders with the same suffix in this case 100,
It only copied all the folders but only one file in the top most folder (they are ...
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Batch File to copy files to new directory while renaming, skipping existing files, and without confirmation
I am creating a batch file to be run later which will be used to copy files from one location to another while renaming the files, skipping any existing files, and without prompting the user. Examples ...
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Copy a file in Post Build of Eclipse/Truestudio
I was using arm-objcopy but it doesn't work with my .h file I need to copy to another project.
xcopy "../${project_loc}/src/folder/file.h" "....\OtherProject\folder\folder2\file.h" ...
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msbuild building projects in solution multiple times
I'm trying to automate a build, and I'm running into a problem building a single solution.
In this solution, project 1 references project 2, which references project 3. Project 4 also references ...
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Copying a file to jenkins workspace location
I need to copy one file to the workspace location of jenkins for my pipeline jenkins job. For that I need to use bat command for windows.
What is the bat command to copy the file from one source ...
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XCopy won't copy from path of the batch script
I have an intune package which runs a batch script as follows.
SET INST=%~dp0
xcopy %INST%\Folder1\* "C:\Program Files (x86)\Test\Folder2" /s /i
Goal is to copy files from Folder1 to ...
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XCOPY- How to copy Source Folder and all subfolder/files but INCLUDE THE SOURCE FOLDER [closed]
All Xcopy/robocopy documentation seems to gloss over copying the folder as if you are performing a right-click copy and paste.
I want C:\Folder to copy to D:\Whatever but I want it to look like D:\...
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Scheduled BAT - Error during XCOPY if file is in use
I have this script scheduled every hour:
@echo off
set path1="E:\Document\Backup"
set path2="E:\Document\NewDoc"
set path3="C:\ScanDoc"
forfiles -p %path1% -s -m *.pdf /...
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xcopy show only when files have been copied
I have made a script using xcopy that generates a csv log file with the date to check that my copies are done.
I would like to be able to display only when it has copied files, and not display ...
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Error "Invalid path 0 File(s) copied" using xcopy in batch file
I want to start with a little disclaimer:
I read this thread on a similar issue to mine, but it seems like the solution doesn't work. It might just be me not understanding it completely but here I am ...
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Copy files from One Server to Another Server using Batch Command - Windows machine
How to copy files from one server to another server(VM) using a windows batch command. ?
I have used below command
syntax : xcopy \\source_path \\serverIP\Destination_path /s /a /d
example : xcopy \\c:...
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Linux: install pip packages using xcopy
I am looking for help to install pip packages using xcopy.
I am running a container, in which i need to bring up jupyter. I do not own the container docker file. So when container comes up, i want to ...
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XCOPY - How to exclude a certain file name?
This is my current xcopy command:
xcopy C:\SourceCodeOld\Release\"Source Code"\*.vb C:\SourceCodeNew\"Source Code"\ /S /Y /R
In several subfolders, I have a file named "...
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Bat file to copy Folders and Files
I have a list of folders and files in a text file, (%File_list%). My batch reads from the text file for the objects to copy. I need it to copy files and folders from one within a folder (%src_folder%),...
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1
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IIS Shadow Copied DLL accessing dependency DLLs from bin location
I am trying to resolve an issue with ASP.Net Framework 4.8 site using EFCore 3.1.16 in IIS. Microsoft.Data.SqlClient has a process lock on SNI.dll which causes issues with xcopy deployment in IIS.
I ...
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How to show output of xcopy in powershell script while it's running
I have this powershell scrip where I want to copy files from our production server to our test server, and only have it copy files which are newer or changed.
The script itself has many more functions ...
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How to specify in a file a list of files and folders to exclude with xcopy or robocopy
Windows 10
I want to run the xcopy or robocopy command in a .bat file.
I need to wildcard copy many files/folders, but exclude some files/folders.
I have tried xcopy with /exclude:filename, but I ...
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Batch file to copy files into one folder
I'm trying to run a bat to copy all the files in a list.txt. to a destination folder, without copying the folders the files are in, and I can't seem to get it to run right.
@ECHO OFF
CHCP 65001 > ...
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Batch File Xcopy specific file only
Would like to seek your help on creating simple bat file that will copy specific file from source to destination.
Eg.
Source = C:\Source
Dest = D:\Destination
File in source:
123.CSV
234.CSV
456.CSV
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How to make XCOPY in Visual Studio Post Build Event Command Line support both Linux and Windows?
How to make XCOPY in Visual Studio Post Build Event Command Line support both Linux and Windows?
I have a post build event command line in my C# project and can works well on windows, but always ...
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Xcopy sharing violation, how to still copy without skipping
I’m copying files from one directory to another with Windows xcopy command in cmake. Sometimes I run into situations where one file is already being used by another program, which results in a sharing ...
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Need to merge 2 folders that have hundreds of thousands of files in each. VB.net
I need to merge these folders that have a TON of files in each directory. I would use folder.copy but that takes forever.
I have been using xcopy process to handle this for the most part but I have ...
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How to copy selected files from one folder to another in Batch file?
In folder C:\A i have afile.h afile.cpp bfile.h bfile.cpp and some other .h and .cpp files (windows 10)
I want to copy only afile.h afile.cpp bfile.h bfile.cpp to C:\B folder and replace them if files ...
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xcopy works from command prompt but fails in batch file using variable
I am trying to run a batch file against a list of remote computers.
The batch file will check for a specific file, if the file is not found in the directory it should be copied there.
I am using the %%...
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Need help figuring out what this xcopy command does
Can anyone tell me what this command is doing on CMD:
xcopy f2 ..\desktop /d /e /f /i /l
My objective: Figuring out how to use xcopy to move one directory with all its contents to another directory ...
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xcopy to a file instead of a directory, can it be reversed?
yeah, I did this:
xcopy * . * d:\save
The directory didn't exist and so a I have a file called 'save' ..
Is it possible to extract that or xcopy /? back to the original files ?
Thanks.
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Copy files from Source to Destination if they don't already exist
I use robocopy to copy SQL Server Transaction Log files from Primary server to Standby server (due to a specific reason I don't use SQL log shipping job to copy). SQL Server generates a new file every ...
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Is there a possibility to pass variable in Exclude parameter of xcopy command
So basically I am looking for some way to pass variable to exclude parameter of xcopy command.
Is it possible? Because it does work for source and destination path
So something like this
$...
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Xcopy does not copy file beofre select F for file or D for directory
So I try to copy file via Xcopy with this simple command:
xcopy c:\file.doc d:\file.doc
And i received this output:
Does C:\file.doc specify a file name
or directory name on the target
(F = file, D = ...
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Robocopy: Copy file, and if an identical file name exists in destination, keep BOTH
I've got this line of code using Robocopy:
Robocopy C:\Autopilot_Export \\Zapp\pc\PLI\Hash_Exports Autopilot_CSV.csv
I will have multiple computers networked into this server running this same script ...
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Copy multiple files from a single source to different destinations, (recursively)
I have 4 files in a single source folder (c:\sandbox\image\).
Files are as follows, INSTALL1.SWM, INSTALL2.SWM, INSTALL3.SWM, INSTALL4.SWM.
My destination structure is c:\sandbox\extract\*\*\*
I want ...
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Moving contents using batch only if it's held in a subdirectory, not root folder
I'm trying to write a script that exclusively moves files from a source folder if they're in a subfolder (IE dayfolders for images) and NOT if the file is just sitting in the root directory. The ...
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The xcopy command that was running before is not working now in power shell
Be sure, thecommand below was working one year ago
set source=C:\Users\sinan.almac\OneDrive - Terrafile\EKOL
set destination=\uzyttn\Excel\EKOL
xcopy %source% %destination% /y
her is the error message ...
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Batch File - Loop using xcopy with variable number of Variables?
I'm a paralegal, and need to create folders and files for each contract that comes in. The folders will be named to only the address, and inside there will be 2 empty folders, and 2 prepared files, a ...
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use xcopy in package.json
I have a react application and a express server. I am serving react app through express server as a static page. I want to copy the build folder from the react application to server each time I build ...
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xcopy and Robocopy deleting destination file
I'm trying to copy some files from one server to another's shared folder, the thing is, it works sometimes, but quite often the xcopy and robocopy commands delete the destination file upon failure, ...
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xcopy fails in AppVeyor, works at home: Invalid number of parameters
The command
xcopy "$SITEPACKAGES\\google" "build\\lib\\google" /i /e /h fails with Invalid number of parameters on Windows on AppVeyor (Visual Studio 2019).
I’ve confirmed the ...
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why xcopy creates another new folder using batch file
I have created a simple batch script that only copies pdf file in the server. Copied file will be stored in a folder in desktop.
But after copying there is a "New Folder" created. Why is ...
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