I can't believe that I am having trouble in copying a directory into another directory via the windows command line.
What I want to do is simple -:
Lets say I have a directory -:
C:\test
and I want to copy test to D: So in D there should be a folder like the following-:
D:\test
when I use
robocopy C:\test D:\test \E
D drive ends up with the contents of C:\test in the root rather than being contained in a directory called test.
How do you do this simple thing ?
If you want to create an exact duplicate, use the following version (which is equivalent to adding /E and /PURGE:
robocopy c:\source d:\destination /MIR
If all you want to do is copy the directories and subdirectories including empty ones, use
robocopy c:\source d:\destination /E
It is the backslash on the E option that was getting you.
To learn more about Robocopy here is a handy search:
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