Batch file to copy directories recursively

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Is there a way to copy directories recursively inside a  bat file  If so  an example would be great  thanks

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I wanted to replicate Unix Linux s cp -r as closely as possible  I came up with the following  xcopy  e  k  h  i srcdir destdir Flag explanation   e Copies directories and subdirectories  including empty ones   k Copies attributes  Normal Xcopy will reset read-only attributes   h Copies hidden and system files also   i If destination does not exist and copying more than one file  assume destination is a directory   I made the following into a batch file  cpr bat  so that I didn t have to remember the flags  xcopy  e  k  h  i    Usage  cpr srcdir destdir  You might also want to use the following flags  but I didn t   q Quiet  Do not display file names while copying   b Copies the Symbolic Link itself versus the target of the link   requires UAC admin   o Copies directory and file ACLs   requires UAC admin

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Look into xcopy  which will recursively copy files and subdirectories   There are examples  2 3 down the page  Of particular use is      To copy all the files and subdirectories  including any empty subdirectories  from drive A to drive B  type       xcopy a  b   s  e

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You may write a recursive algorithm in Batch that gives you exact control of what you do in every nested subdirectory    echo off call  treeProcess goto  eof   treeProcess rem Do whatever you want here over the files of this subdir  for example  copy     C  dest dir for  D   d in     do       cd   d     call  treeProcess     cd      exit  b   Windows Batch File Looping Through Directories to Process Files

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After reading the accepted answer s comments  I tried the robocopy command  which worked for me  using the standard command prompt from Windows 7 64 bits SP 1    robocopy source dir dest dir  s  e

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