Windows 8 In Depth

XCOPY: Advanced File Copying

The XCOPY command is one of the most powerful of the file management command-line tools, and you can use it for some fairly sophisticated file copying operations. Here’s the syntax for XCOPY:

XCOPY source destination [/A | /M] [/C] [/D[:mm-dd--yyyy]] [/EXCLUDE:file1[+file2[+file3]]] [/F] [/G] [/H] [/I] [/K] [/L] [/N] [/O] [/P] [/Q] [/R] [/S [/E]] [/T] [/U] [/V] [/W] [/X] [/Y | -Y] [/Z]

source

The path and names of the files you want to copy.

destination

The location where you want the source files copied.

[/A]

Tells XCOPY to only copy those source files that have their archive attribute turned on. The archive attribute is not changed. If you use /A, you can’t also use /M.

[/M]

Tells XCOPY to only copy those source ...