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 happ

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

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\

Answer 3

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

Answer 4

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