I have some files that need to be copied to a directory on a schedule. All the files have the same name but the extension increments (I have no control over this, it drives me mad)
I've tried running xcopy /C /D /Y /I "C:\Temp\Source" "C:\Temp\Destination"
But I get a message it can't find the file.
Right now I've got a bit of a bodge in place that uses an excluded file extension list and copies anything that isn't in the list but I feel like it might be able to be done better.
2 Answers
In your command line:
xcopy /C /D /Y /I "C:\Temp\Source" "C:\Temp\Destination"
as far as I can see, you haven't told xcopy what to copy. If you're trying to copy everything in C:\Temp\*.* then try:
xcopy C:\Temp\*.* C:\Temp\Destination\ /C /D /Y /I
Use robocopy instead of XCOPY. It supports the same options and allows to select file patterns:
robocopy source dest file(s) [options] For file pattern you could use ? for any single character, * for zero to multiple chars and so on. It would help if you gave an example of how the extensions are looking like.
