i want to XCOPY (NT4) a file that has a suffix and put it on another place and at the same time rename it so that it doesn't have a suffix, how do I silently do this without verifying F for file?

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XCOPY \\<computer>\<share>\test.* D:\test\test 

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KiX's own COPY command did the job!

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COPY "\\<computer>\<share>\test.*" "D:\test\test" 

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xcopy c:\temp\test.* f:\temp\test

will ask if it ia a File or Directory
I don't know of any switch to tell it that it is a file as part of the command.

And it only works with a single file. If you have multiple files, the last will overwrite each one. XCOPY was meant for copying multiple files and folders, not for mass renaming of files.

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(test.* is a single file with a variable suffix that I want to remove for it's destination).

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Thx anyways NTDOC.

Did you have already a solution?

See for ideas about "how to find specified file(s)?" topic
http://kixtart.org/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=2&t=002316

Greetings.

Well, I kindo of have a solution, with KiX32's copycommand, but not in xcopy...

Greets, Masken

Create a file, say f.txt which just contains the letter f.

Run the Xcopy as following

xcopy c:\test.bat c:\temp\test < c:\f.txt

This will automatically enter f as a response to the question. You can use this technique with loads of DOS progs

Cheers

Nick

Thx for the insight