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rajat
rajat

Reputation: 3553

Copy a directory using NSIS .

I can't seem to find any information about how to copy a directory using NSIS ?, i know there is a file command but is there any command to copy a directory .

Upvotes: 29

Views: 26528

Answers (4)

Fabien Ducat
Fabien Ducat

Reputation: 1

The star to match the whole content after the back slash is mandatory. The syntax is the following.

See the manual section 4.9.1.6

SetOutPath "outputPath\myDirectory"
File /nonfatal /a /r "myDirectory\*"

Upvotes: 0

nawfal
nawfal

Reputation: 73301

The syntax is same for both directory and file, except that you need to specify a directory by providing a \ at the end. File command copies the directory if the specified argument is a directory. For eg, you can do:

SetOutPath "outputPath"
File "myDirectory\" #note back slash at the end

But that copies only the top level directory. To recursively do it, you have /r switch

SetOutPath "outputPath"
File /nonfatal /a /r "myDirectory\" #note back slash at the end

which copies the contents of myDirectory (but not myDirectory folder itself). /nonfatal ignores without an error if there is no particular directory. /a copies file attributes as well. /x switch is used to exclude files.

Otherwise,

SetOutPath "outputPath\myDirectory"
File /nonfatal /a /r "myDirectory\" #note back slash at the end

copies all the contents of myDirectory including myDirectory folder to outputPath.

Upvotes: 42

Anders
Anders

Reputation: 101764

The File instruction extracts files from your installer and CopyFiles copies files and/or directories that already exist on the end-users system (You can use $EXEDIR if you need to copy files off a dvd where your installer is also located...)

Upvotes: 3

rajat
rajat

Reputation: 3553

I found how to do it , sorry for the trouble .

Extract the files to a directory which can't exist beforehand

CreateDirectory $Installdir\extracting

SetOutPath $Installdir\extracting

File Directory\*

Upvotes: 5

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