[sdiy] way OT: DOS Commands

[Bob Weigel]

I think you need a /s option on xcopy to catch all subdirectories or 
something as I recall. xcopy *.* [path] /a is probably what you want. -Bob

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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