How to say no to all “do you want to overwrite” prompts in a batch file copy?

Question

By default, copying from the command prompt will prompt you to overwrite files that already exist in the target location.

You can add \"/Y\" to say \"Yes to all\" re

Answer 1

I know you all think /D: date is going to use date stuff, but just /D without the: does exactly what we want so...

xcopy {Source} {Destination} /E /D 

Will copy without overwriting to pickup those files that are new or maybe failed before for some reason.

Just try it, it works.