From: "Paul Ranson" 

You could look at the /exclude switch to xcopy.

Paul

"Adam"  wrote in message
news:42b039bc$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Someone has recomended robocopy to me. I have d/l'ed the win2K3S resource
> kit & a couple of other copies of robocopy & I was wondering
if the win2K3
> rk works on XP & Win2K...?
>
> i.e. I may as well go with the direct from MS copy.
>
> Adam
>
>
>
> Adam wrote:
>
>> Windows XP Laptop (though if it works on win2K as well that's a big
>> bonus)
>>
>> I want to move all files from a given dir (e.g. C:\Dir1) to a different
>> dir (e.g. C:\Dir2) excluding files ending in .abc.
>>
>> Should be a .bat file as I may need to do this periodically.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>>
>> does move do pattern based exclusions?
>>
>> Adam

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