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Number   :  5259
Date     :  2003-08-10
Author   :  Garry Deane
Subject  :  Re: Copy fully-specified files to same path on another drive
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--- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, Michael Marquart  wrote:
> 
> It's been pointed out that filenames in the target dirspec might
> be a problem, but you can use copy or xcopy in that case, in
> place of xxcopy.

You're right. Xxcopy requires that the destination is a path. It
will not accept a destination path/filename and if given one, it
will treat the filename as a directory name. Here's a variation on
your batch that will extract just the destination path. This
assumes the filenames in filelist.txt are un-quoted.

@echo off
for /f "tokens=*" %%a in (filelist.txt) do echo xxcopy "%%a" "z:%%~pa"

Or as you say, you could use copy or xcopy and not worry about 
extracting the path.

Garry



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