xcopy wildcard source folder name to destination

batch-file cmd wildcard xcopy
Wonderer picture Wonderer · Apr 22, 2014 · Viewed 19.6k times · Source

I want to copy from a wildcard source folder to a destination folder:

xcopy a:\parentfolder\n* x:\parentfolder

Only folders starting with "n" should therefore be copied to the destination.

Any help to get this working would be much appreciated.

Answer

Magoo picture Magoo · Apr 22, 2014 
for /f "delims=" %%a in ('dir /b/ad "a:\parentfolder\n*" ') do xcopy "a:\parentfolder\%%a\*" x:\parentfolder\

As you have it, XCOPY assumes that n* is a filespec, and there's no way to tell it otherwise.

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