exclude in xcopy just for a file type

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I have a batch file to copy over files from Visual Studio to my Web folder   I want to copy all files in my web project  EXCEPT for   cs files   I can t seem to get this to work   xcopy  r  d  i  s  y  exclude   cs  C  dev apan C  web apan   Any tips   I just get exit code 4 when I try to run this

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Change   cs to  cs in the excludefileslist txt

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In my case I had to start a list of exclude extensions from the second line because xcopy ignored the first line

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The  EXCLUDE  argument expects a file containing a list of excluded files   So create a file called excludedfileslist txt containing    cs    Then a command like this   xcopy  r  d  i  s  y  exclude excludedfileslist txt C  dev apan C  web apan   Alternatively you could use Robocopy  but would require installing   copying a robocopy exe to the machines   Update  An anonymous comment edit which simply stated  This Solution exclude also css file    This is true creating a excludedfileslist txt file contain just    cs    note no backslash on the end   Will also exclude all of the following    file1 cs file2 css dir1 cs file3 txt dir2 anyfile cs something txt   Sometimes people don t read or understand the XCOPY command s help  here is an item I would like to highlight      Using  exclude         List each string in a separate line in each file  If any of the listed strings match any part of the absolute path of the file to be copied  that file is then excluded from the copying process  For example  if you specify the string   Obj    you exclude all files underneath the Obj directory  If you specify the string   obj   you exclude all files with the  obj extension       As the example states it excludes  all files with the  obj extension  but it doesn t state that it also excludes files or directories named file1 obj tmp or dir obj output example2 txt   There is a way around  css files being excluded also  change the excludedfileslist txt file to contain just    cs     note the backslash on the end    Here is a complete test sequence for your reference   C  test1 gt ver  Microsoft Windows  Version 6 1 7601   C  test1 gt md src C  test1 gt md dst C  test1 gt md src dir1 C  test1 gt md src dir2 cs C  test1 gt echo  file contents   gt  src file1 cs C  test1 gt echo  file contents   gt  src file2 css C  test1 gt echo  file contents   gt  src dir1 file3 txt C  test1 gt echo  file contents   gt  src dir1 file4 cs txt C  test1 gt echo  file contents   gt  src dir2 cs file5 txt  C  test1 gt xcopy  r  i  s  y   src   dst   src file1 cs   src file2 css   src dir1 file3 txt   src dir1 file4 cs txt   src dir2 cs file5 txt 5 File s  copied  C  test1 gt echo  cs  gt  excludedfileslist txt C  test1 gt xcopy  r  i  s  y  exclude excludedfileslist txt   src   dst   src dir1 file3 txt 1 File s  copied  C  test1 gt echo  cs   gt  excludedfileslist txt C  test1 gt xcopy  r  i  s  y  exclude excludedfileslist txt   src   dst   src file2 css   src dir1 file3 txt   src dir1 file4 cs txt 3 File s  copied   This test was completed on a Windows 7 command line and retested on Windows 10  10 0 14393    Note that the last example does exclude   src dir2 cs file5 txt which may or may not be unexpected for you

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For excluding multiple file types  you can use     to concatenate other lists  For example   xcopy  r  d  i  s  y  exclude excludedfileslist1 txt excludedfileslist2 txt C  dev apan C  web apan   Source  http   www tech-recipes com rx 2682 xcopy command using the exclude flag

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