Howes-IT-Going - xcopy Filelist .BAT

The following example shows how to create your own simple DOS .BAT to xcopy files listed in a text file. You will need to have Windows/DOS/CMD prompt experience And a text editor like: Notepad, TextPad or Wordpad. Use the xcopy_filelist.txt file contents to create the needed DOS .BAT for this example. Always make Backup copies of all files before editing! Use this script At Your Own Risk!

xcopy_filelist.txt

xcopy_filelist.bat The solution to this is to make a simple batch file that parses the content of the text file, generating the appropriate xcopy command to copy the file. We’ll call the batch file xcopy_filelist.bat; its one line of content is above. Change c:\temp\ to whatever path you want the files copied to. (I used c:\temp\ for testing.) Change \\server\share\folder to the root folder of the files to copy. Put the file list in the same directory as the batch file and name the file list filelist.txt. Then run the batch file and bam -- you've got it! You’ve got to love the for command, which lets you (among other things) parse text files and use the line-by-line output. Another trick in here is the output parser pipe, which allows us to automatically press the “D” key with each xcopy command.