Copy Files with exact Structure into another Directory using XCopy

windows file copy xcopy
Inside Man picture Inside Man · Sep 5, 2011 · Viewed 8.7k times · Source

Think I want to copy this file C:\Majid\File\text.txt to D:\Copied (C:\Majid\File\text.txt ---> D:\Copied)

I want to use Xcopy to copy that file with its full directory into D:\Copied, then I should have something like this ---> D:\Copied\Majid\File\text.txt , as you see the drive letter is removed and all of other directory is created in destination directory.

How can I do this action by XCopy?

Answer

Davide Piras picture Davide Piras · Sep 5, 2011

see this:

XCOPY COMMAND

... Syntax xcopy Source [Destination] [/w] [/p] [/c] [/v] [/q] [/f] [/l] [/g] [/d[:mm-dd-yyyy]] [/u] [/i] [/s [/e]] [/t] [/k] [/r] [/h] [{/a|/m}] [/n] [/o] [/x] [/exclude:file1[+[file2]][+[file3]] [{/y|/-y}] [/z] ...

what you will find interesting in that page is this:

/s : Copies directories and subdirectories, unless they are empty. If you omit /s, xcopy works within a single directory.

Related questions

Create a directory if it doesn't exist

In my app I want to copy a file to the other hard disk so this is my code: #include <windows.h> using namespace std; int main(int argc, char* argv[] ) { string Input = "C:\\Emploi NAm.docx"; string …

Read More
File copy using robo copy and process

I am creating a File copy program which will copy large number of files(~100,000) with size ~50 KB using ROBOCOPY command. For each file, I am creating a new process and passing the ROBOCOPY command and arguments as follow: using (Process …

Read More
How to create an empty file at the command line in Windows?

How to create an empty file at the DOS/Windows command-line? I tried: copy nul > file.txt but it always displays that a file was copied. Is there any other method in the standard cmd? It should be a …

Read More