On some Windows environments (Windows 7 and Windows Vista), I have some scripts running and one of the things those scripts are doing, is trying to copy files. The results of those commands are logged in a logfile.
While looking into that logfile, I've just seen the following result:
The system cannot find the path specified.
This obviously is not very helpful (which file does he try to copy, to which directory, ...), so I would like to replace the existing copy
commands by xcopy
or other commands (in order to use the xcopy /F
flag, which shows all files and directories of the xcopy
command), but there is a catch: when I simply replace copy
by xcopy
then the non-existing directory gets created, which I don't want (and I don't find a xcopy
flag to prevent this), so now my question becomes:
Is there a commandline command which tries to copy a file to a directory, which shows the files/directories he's copying but which does not create a destination directory in case it does not exist?
Thanks
xcopy
without the preceedingecho
, in top of that it's also creating the %dest1% directory, which I don't want.