From: Adam 

Paul Ranson wrote:

> You could look at the /exclude switch to xcopy.
>

I thought about that but I'd then have to go back & delete those files
in a second pass & I'd rather do it in one go such that I am sure that
f copy fails, del doesn't happen (as with move).

Adam

> Paul
>
> "Adam"  wrote in message
> news:42b039bc$1{at}w3.nls.net...
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>>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
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>>Adam wrote:
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>>
>>>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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