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  • Re: XCOPY help syntax

    From Frank \(MS\)@fsager@online.microsoft.com to microsoft.public.win2000.general,alt.os.windows2000,comp.os.ms-windows.misc,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support on Wednesday, July 23, 2003 08:17:10
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    Peter I use something simular
    xcopy d:\aaadir\*.log e:\bbbdir /idechk
    This will create the same directory layout as the orginal source but only
    copy log files to the target location that are newer than the destination files.

    Then do the same command with you *.dat. You could place the two copy
    commands into a single batch file so only would have to run the batch file

    Hope this helps

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    "Peter Swampton" <peter.swam@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:bfm183$n4f$01$1@news.t-online.com...
    I want to perform some tasks with XCOPY and need the detailed syntax for
    it.
    I want to copy all files with the extensions *.log and *.dat (only those
    !) in the directory D:\aaadir
    (and recursively in the subdirectories) to the target directory E:\bbbdir.

    If one of the subdirectories in D:\aaadir contain a file which matches
    e.g. *.log then in the targetdir
    the same directory should be created (or if already existing it should be
    used instead).
    All other files should be touched.

    How do I specify the appropriate XCOPY command ?
    XCOPY syntax show only options to EXCLUDE files but NOT to INCLUDE them.

    cu
    Peter



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