XCopy Multiple File Extensions (XP)

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Is it possible to xcopy multiple file extensions with one line of code?

As an example:
xcopy “e:MyDirectory*.xls;*.doc” “Z:backup” /S /Y[tab ‘Note two different types of file extensions.

As opposed to:
xcopy “e:MyDirectory*.xls” “Z:backup” /S /Y
xcopy “e:MyDirectory*.doc” “Z:backup” /S /Y

I have not had any success.
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John

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The syntax of the XCOPY command (do XCOPY /?) shows that this is not possible. You have to make two XCOPY commands. You can just have one line in your BATch file by doing something like:

for %%x in (xls doc) do xcopy “e:MyDirectory*.%%x” “Z:backup” /S /Y

(and note that the double quotes aren’t needed unless there’s a blank somewhere in the path). You could have reduced the previous line to:

for %%x in (xls doc) do xcopy e:MyDirectory*.%%x Z:backup /S /Y

This just generates the two original lines of code when it is run, but reduces the size of the BATch file.

John

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Thank you

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Thank you

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The syntax of the XCOPY command (do XCOPY /?) shows that this is not possible. You have to make two XCOPY commands. You can just have one line in your BATch file by doing something like:

for %%x in (xls doc) do xcopy “e:MyDirectory*.%%x” “Z:backup” /S /Y

(and note that the double quotes aren’t needed unless there’s a blank somewhere in the path). You could have reduced the previous line to:

for %%x in (xls doc) do xcopy e:MyDirectory*.%%x Z:backup /S /Y

This just generates the two original lines of code when it is run, but reduces the size of the BATch file.

John

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