Windows copy folder recursively command line

Yuri Sucupira Yuri Sucupira 2 2 gold badges 11 11 silver badges 23 23 bronze badges. For the case where you want to preserve the directory structure, run this command from the source directory.

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Linked 9. Related 4. Hot Network Questions. Question feed. Ask Ubuntu works best with JavaScript enabled. Accept all cookies Customize settings. If you need to copy a folder to another location but do not overwrite the files already existed in the new location, here is what you can do. Or, use a much powerful copy command line alternative instead, i. For example, to copy all files from folder A to folder B excluding all files that have the newer timestamp.

It may be because your command is not specifying any files. Next of Windows. Microsoft Announces Windows July 15, The third party tool XXcopy has the ability to flatten a directory tree and handle filename conflicts.

To copy for instance all files from the current folder and its sub directories to the parent folder of the current folder you can use:. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Asked 8 years, 1 month ago. Active 7 years, 7 months ago. Viewed 6k times. Improve this question. BenMorel Tom Pennetta Tom Pennetta 6 6 silver badges 25 25 bronze badges.