Since the number of switches far exceeds the number of lettersĪvailable in the alphabet, many of the switches use multipleĬharacters. We try ourīest to keep these (still increasing) switches under our control. These switches, you must learn to deal with them. Here, a first time XXCOPY user may be overwhelmed by the sheer Once you learn this simple rule, it is quite easy to understand a This is true for nearly all command line applications. XXCOPY "C:\My Documents\" D:\backup\ // good XXCOPY C:\My Documents\ D:\backup\ // bad Surrounded by a pair of quotes (") that is to be kept unbroken. Therefore, a name with an embedded space must be The blank characters (space or tab) act as the delimiter of For a complete review of syntax and semantics More rules for special cases are discussed at Of when conflicting switches are specified, in which case the rightmost The order of the switches is not generally important with the exception Switches may begin even before the source specifier. Note that the positions of the switches need not be at the end of The command has two (/S and /H) switches. Here, "C:\mydir\" is the source specifier and "D:\yourdir\" is Switches in order to minimize the total length of the command line. On the other hand, you may omit blank characters between Other items in the command line by at least one blank (space or tab)Ĭharacter. The source and the destination specifiers must be separated from XXCOPY source Īll switches start with a slash (/) character whereas the sourceĪnd the destination specifiers do not have the slash(/) prefix. Set of switches that makes XXCOPY so versatile and powerful.
Options) to customize XXCOPY's behaviors. In addition, you may add command switches (which are also called Then, by default, theĬurrent directory in the current drive becomes the destination.īy convention, an optional parameter is denoted in the syntaxĭefinition by a pair of square-brackets surrounding it. As commonly done in the COPY and XCOPY command syntax, theĭestination specifier can be omitted. The first parameter is the source specifier and the second one is Introduced in 1981 as a PC-DOS (MS-DOS) built-in command. This very intuitive command syntax has its root in the COPY command In its simplest form, XXCOPY takes two parameters, XXCOPY source destination (simplified syntax)
Subject: XXCOPY Command Parameters Reference XXCOPY on Windows Vista - living with UAC A very quick recovery scheme for Win9X/ME XXCOPY.CHM - The HTML-style Help File for XXCOPY Creating a Shortcut from the command line (batch file)
The differences between XXCOPY Pro and Freeware
XXCOPY's Exit Code (for ERRORLEVEL checking) The Wild-Wild-Source: the source spec with wildcards XXCOPY Command Reference Functional Classification XXCOPY Command Reference Alphabetic Listing The enhanced features of XXCOPY at a glance The filename matching schemes in Win32 and DOS Selecting files by file date and time using XXCOPY Gathering files into one directory using XXCOPY XXCOPY Cookbook: Recipes of common usages Cloning the Win9x system disk using XXCOPY Worldwide Network of Download Sites for XXCOPY Short names made by Win95/98 and by WinNT/2K/XP XXCOPY's Handling the case of Cyclic Copy
File Attributes: what they are and how to use them. What is and what is not included for copy Problems in filename aliases (8.3 names) in Win32 What are the differences between XCOPY and XXCOPY?
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