I have a batch file to copy over files from Visual Studio to my Web folder. I want to copy all files in my web project, EXCEPT for *.cs files. I can't seem to get this to work:
xcopy /r /d /i /s /y /exclude:".cs" C:\dev\apan C:\web\apan
Any tips? I just get exit code 4 when I try to run this.
The /EXCLUDE:
argument expects a file containing a list of excluded files.
So create a file called excludedfileslist.txt
containing:
.cs\
Then a command like this:
xcopy /r /d /i /s /y /exclude:excludedfileslist.txt C:\dev\apan C:\web\apan
Alternatively you could use Robocopy, but would require installing / copying a robocopy.exe
to the machines.
An anonymous comment edit which simply stated "This Solution exclude also css file!"
This is true creating a excludedfileslist.txt
file contain just:
.cs
(note no backslash on the end)
Will also exclude all of the following:
file1.cs
file2.css
dir1.cs\file3.txt
dir2\anyfile.cs.something.txt
Sometimes people don't read or understand the XCOPY command's help, here is an item I would like to highlight:
Using /exclude
- List each string in a separate line in each file. If any of the listed strings match any part of the absolute path of the file to be copied, that file is then excluded from the copying process. For example, if you specify the string "\Obj", you exclude all files underneath the Obj directory. If you specify the string ".obj", you exclude all files with the .obj extension.
As the example states it excludes "all files with the .obj extension" but it doesn't state that it also excludes files or directories named file1.obj.tmp
or dir.obj.output\example2.txt
.
There is a way around .css
files being excluded also, change the excludedfileslist.txt
file to contain just:
.cs\
(note the backslash on the end).
Here is a complete test sequence for your reference:
C:\test1>ver
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
C:\test1>md src
C:\test1>md dst
C:\test1>md src\dir1
C:\test1>md src\dir2.cs
C:\test1>echo "file contents" > src\file1.cs
C:\test1>echo "file contents" > src\file2.css
C:\test1>echo "file contents" > src\dir1\file3.txt
C:\test1>echo "file contents" > src\dir1\file4.cs.txt
C:\test1>echo "file contents" > src\dir2.cs\file5.txt
C:\test1>xcopy /r /i /s /y .\src .\dst
.\src\file1.cs
.\src\file2.css
.\src\dir1\file3.txt
.\src\dir1\file4.cs.txt
.\src\dir2.cs\file5.txt
5 File(s) copied
C:\test1>echo .cs > excludedfileslist.txt
C:\test1>xcopy /r /i /s /y /exclude:excludedfileslist.txt .\src .\dst
.\src\dir1\file3.txt
1 File(s) copied
C:\test1>echo .cs\ > excludedfileslist.txt
C:\test1>xcopy /r /i /s /y /exclude:excludedfileslist.txt .\src .\dst
.\src\file2.css
.\src\dir1\file3.txt
.\src\dir1\file4.cs.txt
3 File(s) copied
This test was completed on a Windows 7 command line and retested on Windows 10 "10.0.14393".
Note that the last example does exclude .\src\dir2.cs\file5.txt
which may or may not be unexpected for you.