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Solve : batch to copy and not replace existing files?

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Hi all,

I am aware that there is no switch to do this so i was thinking of another way of doing it.

i was thinking of creating a text file with a list of files in the directory in source and destination, then comparing the two, finding any DIFFERENCE then copy the files singley.

so far i have

echo off

DIR /S /b c:\a\* >> a.TXT             
DIR /S /b c:\b\* >> b.txt

this creates files a.txt and b.txt with a list of file NAMES files in each folder. i would then need to compare the two, CREATE a 3rd .txt file which contains the path of everything that is in dir a and not in b, then copy from dir a everything in the 3rd .txt file to dir b...

hope this makes sense. im sort of disappointed that microsoft would not include a switch for this, there are many USES for it.

Any help would be great.

Thank you.
normally, you would go for xcopy. type xcopy /? and see how its used.xcopy has more functions within but none to say no to all



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