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   Robert Roland to All   
   Re: To stop XCOPY asking F or D in batch   
   28 Jan 19 22:19:32   
   
   From: fake@ddress.no   
      
   On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 05:50:28 -0800 (PST), dr.j.r.stockton@gmail.com   
   wrote:   
      
   >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robocopy says "File names and wildcard   
   characters (such as * and ?) are not valid as source or destination   
   arguments.", which makes it incapable of doing the whole job itself.   
      
   It is true that you cannot use wildcard in the source folder name, but   
   in the file names, you can.   
      
   You can also exclude certain files based on wildcards. The /XF option   
   does that.   
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