Copy a list (txt) of files

Question

I\'ve seen some scripts examples over SO, but none of them seems to provide examples of how to read filenames from a .txt list.

This example is good, so as to copy a

Answer 1

Given your list of file names in a file called File-list.txt, the following lines should do what you want:

@echo off
set src_folder=c:\whatever
set dst_folder=c:\target
for /f "tokens=*" %%i in (File-list.txt) DO (
    xcopy /S/E "%src_folder%\%%i" "%dst_folder%"
)