How to specify the directory name in XCOPY Command

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How to specify the Source Directory name in the XCOPY arguments. I'm trying following but it gives error.

setlocal enableextensions
set CopyPath=E:/DialerTFS/PredictiveDialer

XCOPY CopyPath%\AgentDetails\AgentDetails\Bin\Debug\*.dll C:\BuildProject\bash\%name%\AgentDetails /s /e /h /Y

If Have idea, please share.

Posted 24-Aug-14 20:23pm

SachinSutar

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 25-Aug-14 3:11am

What idea?! On reading xcopy documentation? :-)
—SA

SachinSutar 25-Aug-14 3:15am

getting Source Directory from variable. In Above code %CopyPath%

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 25-Aug-14 3:19am

I already answered, please see.
—SA

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-24T21:14:00

Solution 1

Instead of " CopyPath%" should be "%CopyPath%", "name" is not defined, so what would you expect?
Please see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XCOPY[^],
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771254.aspx[^].

Better yet, see the xcopy documentation on your system:

xcopy /?

—SA

Posted 24-Aug-14 21:14pm

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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SachinSutar 25-Aug-14 3:32am

Thanks. It solved.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 25-Aug-14 3:51am

You are welcome.
Good luck, call again.
—SA