batch to copy files with xcopy

Question

I have checked some examples on internet but I can t get my  first  batch file to work  I would like to copy automatically my file from a folder to another one but nothing happen    echo off xcopy  C  source    C  target    c  d  i  y exit   Could you see anything wrong   Thanks    Update  I have done the command given by Bali C but it still doesn t work  See snapshot  xcopy C  folder1 C  folder2 folder1  t  e  i  y xcopy C  folder1 C  folder2   t  e  i  y   Image    I have to stop it with CTRL   C   PS  I m on Win 7  Update  Solution   It works  The problem was the name xcopy bat on my Desktop  and I was running the command from there  so it was executing the xcopy bat file of my desktop instead of the Windows one   I had to rename the file with  myxcopy bat      echo off xcopy  C  source   C  target   c  d  i  y exit

User · Accepted Answer

After testing most of the switches this worked for me:

xcopy C:\folder1 C:\folder2\folder1 /t /e /i /y

This will copy the folder folder1 into the folder folder2. So the directory tree would look like:

C:
   Folder1
   Folder2
      Folder1

User · Answer

If the requirement is to copy all files in   Publish Appfolder  into the parent   Publish   folder  inclusive of any subfolders  following works for me  The switch   s  allows copying of all subfolders  recursively   xcopy src main Publish Appfolder       s src main Publish

User · Answer

You must specify your file in the copy   xcopy C  source myfile txt C  target   Or if you want to copy all txt files for example  xcopy C  source   txt C  target

User · Answer

Based on xcopy help  I tried and found that following works perfectly for me  tried on Win 7   xcopy C  folder1 C  folder2 folder1  E  C  I  Q  G  H  R  K  Y  Z  J

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