My batch script xcopy is still asking F = file, D = directory confirmation even though I added /F in the script, log it is showing as below. Please help on the is how to avoid to asking confirmation.
Script:
net use p: /delete net use p: "\\200clan\F_Drive" /USER:adm /PERSISTENT:NO-1111 set source=%1 set target=p:/%2 echo %source% %target% xcopy /S /I /Q /Y /F "%source%" "%target%"
Log:
C:\test\foldera>xcopy /S /I /Q /Y /F "C:/test/folder1/folder2/logs/154/compareReport_177.html" "p:/Services/WSDLCompare/177_20151116/compareReport_177.html" Does P:\Services\WSDLCompare\177_20151116\UIReport_177.html specify a file name or directory name on the target (F = file, D = directory)?
The /I switch (not /F as you mentioned in your question) prevents xcopy from asking whether the destination is a file or a directory only if multiple source files are given, so if the source is a directory, or if wildcards ? or * are used. If the destination already exists, such prompt does never appear.
There are the following scenarios (depending on the provided values of %source% and %target%):
a single source file, the destination is a file:
the /I switch is useless, so you need to pipe F into the xcopy command line:
echo F|xcopy /S /Q /Y /F "%source%" "%target%"
provided that the /Y switch is given (to force overwriting), you could also create the target file in advance (empty file):
>> "%target%" rem/ xcopy /S /Q /Y /F "%source%" "%target%"
a single source file, the destination is a directory:
the /I switch is useless too; you can pipe D into the xcopy command line:
echo D|xcopy /S /Q /Y /F "%source%" "%target%"
or you can simply append a \ to the destination:
xcopy /S /Q /Y /F "%source%" "%target%\"
although this causes trouble when %target% specifies the current directory of a drive like D: for instance, because D: means the current directory of this drive whereas D:\ means the root directory of it;
or you create the destination directory in advance:
2> nul mkdir "%target%" xcopy /S /Q /Y /F "%source%" "%target%"
the 2> nul portion suppresses the error message in case the directory already exists;
multiple source files, the destination is a file:
this is usually a senseless situation, because you tell xcopy to copy each source file to the same destination file, thus attempting to overwrite it;
multiple source files, the destination is a directory:
the /I switch makes sense here:
xcopy /S /I /Q /Y /F "%source%" "%target%"
the pipe option also works here:
echo D|xcopy /S /Q /Y /F "%source%" "%target%"
so does appending a \ to the destination (regarding the limitation as mentioned above):
xcopy /S /Q /Y /F "%source%" "%target%\"
or you create the destination directory in advance:
2> nul mkdir "%target%" xcopy /S /Q /Y /F "%source%" "%target%"
Conclusion
The most flexible and secure solution is to pipe the desired selection (F or D) into the xcopy command line. (Note that the query is locale-dependent.)
Supplement
There are some minor issues in your code fragment I want to mention here:
- you should generally use the
\ as a path separator as this is the Windows standard character for that purpose (although / works too in most cases); - there is
-1111 appended to your second net use command line; if this constitutes the password for the resource, it should be moved before the /USER option; otherwise just remove it; - your
set command lines introduce problems with some special characters (like &, ^, (, )); to avoid such, state set "source=%~1" and set "target=p:/%~2"; the ~ removes potential surrounding "" from the arguments (which are required if they contain SPACE, ,, ;, =);
Here is the code with the all of the above things reworked:
net use P: /DELETE rem supposing `-1111` constitutes the password for the resource: net use P: "\\200clan\F_Drive" -1111 /USER:adm /PERSISTENT:NO set "source=%~1" set "target=P:\%~2" echo "%source%" "%target%" rem supposing the destination is a directory: echo D|xcopy /S /I /Q /Y /F "%source%" "%target%" rem actually you do not need any interim variables: REM echo D|xcopy /S /I /Q /Y /F "%~1" "P:\%~2"
xcopy does not know that the target is a directory. You make this clear by putting a backslash at end:
xcopy /S /I /Q /Y /F "%source%" "%target%\"
Removing the destination filename will suppress the message. This works for me!
