user564612
user564612

Reputation: 45

CMD, Path not filename

I am working with a VB.net project. I was using the command promt (cmd). I told the CMD to do: Copy /b path1 + path2 destination

However the cmd thought my path was a FileName. So how do i tell cmd that it is a path and not FileName.

//Thank you!

PS. the path are not the same so i could not use for example: CD C:\mydocs\

Upvotes: 0

Views: 335

Answers (2)

SLaks
SLaks

Reputation: 888293

You need to put a \ at the end of the path to show copy that it's a directory.

EDIT: You need to put your path in quotes ("...") to force the shell's argument parser to pass the entire path as one.

Upvotes: 1

Konrad Rudolph
Konrad Rudolph

Reputation: 546193

Don’t use the command prompt for that, use the System.IO.File.Copy method of the .NET framework instead.

… obviously, the same goes for other methods that exist in the framework. If you don’t know whether a certain method exists, try searching the MSDN.

Upvotes: 1

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