Can I copy multiple named files on the Windows command line using a single “copy” command?

Question

I\'d like to copy several known files to another directory as a part of a post-build event, but don\'t want to have lines and lines of \"copy [file] [destination] [switches]\" i

Answer 1

XP and Vista replaced xcopy with robocopy, and it will do exactly what you want. The syntax for what you want feels backwards at first, but it does the job:

robocopy source\folder a\dest\folder file1.exe file2.bat file3.dll file4.txt