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I'd like to copy several known files to another directory as a part of a post-build event, but don't want to have lines and lines of "copy [file] [destination] [switches]" in my build event. If possible, I'd like to list out the files I'd like to copy using a similar format: "copy [file 1] [file 2] [file 3] [etc...] [destination] [switches]". However, Windows doesn't seem to like this type of format. Any ideas? Thanks!
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Copy Multiple Files Using CP CommandYou must provide both the file name and the destination directory when using the cp command to copy multiple files. First, open the specific directory in the terminal and execute the tree command. If you don't know about the tree command, then please check out this blog.
The short answer is no. You can not use GNU/cp or BSD/cp to copy a single file to multiple directories. However, you can use combination of cp and xargs/parallel and other commands to copy a single file to multiple directories in MacOS, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and Unix-like systems.
Step 1: Click on the first file to be selected. Step 2: Hold down Ctrl and click on all the files that you want to select additionally. Step 2: Press the Shift key and click on the last file. Step 3: You have now selected all files at once and can copy and move them.
To append files, specify a single file for destination, but multiple files for source (that is, by using wildcards or file1+file2+file3 format). If you omit destination, the xcopy command copies the files to the current directory.
You can use 'for' either in a batch file or directly from the command prompt:
for %I in (file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt) do copy %I c:\somedir\
Wildcards are supported in the filelist as well:
for %I in (*.txt *.doc *.html) do copy %I c:\somedir\
For more info, just type for /? from a command prompt, or for a much easier to read help use Start->Help and Support and search for "For". On my XP Pro box, it was item 15 in the full text search results.
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XP and Vista replaced xcopy with robocopy, and it will do exactly what you want. The syntax for what you want feels backwards at first, but it does the job:
robocopy source\folder a\dest\folder file1.exe file2.bat file3.dll file4.txt
Use the <Copy> MSBuild task.
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