[sdiy] way OT: DOS Commands

[Ben Lincoln]

There is a way to do it with xcopy, but you are much better off using 
robocopy (robocopy /MIR [SOURCE] [DESTINATION] /R:0 /W:0 is the fastest 
way to do it, adding /Z if it's across a network). It's an MS tool, but 
it's not included with the default Windows install unless you are 
running Vista.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robocopy

You can also just use the copy command but give it the folder name and 
target folder name without the *.*. At least, that works on Vista.

mike ruberto wrote:
> Sorry for the off-topic post but I can't seem to locate any computer
> geeks lately through other channels.
> I haven't had to do any DOS command line stuff for a long time and I
> guess I'm rusty.
> I need to copy an entire directory tree. In linux it would be something like:
> cp -Rf [path] *
>
> So I tried in DOS:
>
> xcopy [path] *.*
>
> For some reason this only got me the first file in the target
> directory. What gives?
>
> I'm actually trying to write a batch file.
> Any help much appreciated.
>
> M. A. Ruberto
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