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Gouse Feroz
Gouse Feroz

Reputation: 53

xcopy is not working when used inside a batch file

I was trying to use XCOPY in my batch file, but it is not doing anything.

The echo statement used is printing infinite times and its not terminating at all.

@echo off

echo "Script Started"

XCOPY "C:\Users\feroz\Desktop\Datafeed\Git Data\" "C:\ProgramData" /E > NUL

pause

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2875

Answers (1)

Compo
Compo

Reputation: 38579

As per my comment…

If the script is continually looping, which is what you're describing in your question, you have probably named your batch file xcopy.bat or xcopy.cmd? If so, please change the name to something which isn't the name of another available executable, or change XCOPY to XCopy.exe.

Even better would be to ensure that you're calling the fullpath to XCopy.exe, using %__APPDIR__%XCopy.exe:

@Echo Off
Echo "Script Started"
"%__APPDIR__%XCopy.exe" "C:\Users\feroz\Desktop\Datafeed\Git Data" "C:\ProgramData" /E>Nul

It's more likely that you'd want however to copy everything to a directory within C:\ProgramData so I'd suggest something a little more like this:

@Echo Off
Echo "Script Started"
"%__APPDIR__%XCopy.exe" "C:\Users\feroz\Desktop\Datafeed\Git Data" "C:\ProgramData\Git Data\" /E>Nul

In this case, the trailing backslash on the destination will create the directory if it doesn't already exist.

Upvotes: 1

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