2.7.40. COPY

Help of the DOS Command COPY

Copies one or more files to another location.:

COPY [/D] [/V] [/N] [/Y | /-Y] [/Z]
     [/L] [/A | /B ]
     source [/A | /B]
     [+ source [/A | /B] [+ ...]]
     [destination [/A | /B]]

source:

Specifies the file or files to be copied.

/A:

Indicates an ASCII text file.

/B:

Indicates a binary file.

/D:

Allow the destination file to be created decrypted

destination:

Specifies the directory and/or filename for the new file(s).

/V:

Verifies that new files are written correctly.

/N:

Uses short filename, if available, when copying a file with a non-8dot3 name.

/Y:

Suppresses prompting to confirm you want to overwrite an existing destination file.

/-Y:

Causes prompting to confirm you want to overwrite an existing destination file.

/Z:

Copies networked files in restartable mode.

/L:

If the source is a symbolic link, copy the link to the target instead of the actual file the source link points to.

The switch /Y may be preset in the COPYCMD environment variable. This may be overridden with /-Y on the command line. Default is to prompt on overwrites unless COPY command is being executed from within a batch script.

To append files, specify a single file for destination, but multiple files for source (using wildcards or file1+file2+file3 format).

Note

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