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Number   :  2655
Date     :  2002-08-14
Author   :  Jeff Jansen
Subject  :  basic src dst question
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I must be missing something very basic here. I'm trying to make copies of a
set of files and give the copies different extensions. But when I try to
execute:

xxcopy *.xyz *.abc

I get the following error message:

Invalid destination directory name.

But the plain DOS command

xcopy *.xyz *.abc

works fine.

Even this doesn't work:

xxcopy .\*.xyz .\*.abc

Why doesn't xxcopy do this simple operation?

BTW, this is a simplification of what I'm really trying to do which is make
copies of a set files so that the copies are date-time stamped. For example,
I'd want the file foobar.abc to become foobar_2002-08-14_0930.abc. any
suggestions on how to do that with xxcopy?

Jeff Jansen
Portland, Oregon
USA



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