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I have not seen trace of this powerful utility in this forum section...

XXCOPY started as a clone of Dos' XCOPY, with more functionnalities.
Actually, it has hundred of command line switches, which is a bit overwhelming, but that is what make the power of this file management utility.

As the name implies, it can be used to copy files and directories. It can copy whole directory trees, with lot of options (copy only the read-only files, for example), etc. It can also alter file attributes (read, date/time, etc.), synchronize directories, etc.

I won't detail here the functionnalities, just go to the site and see if it can solve some of your problems.

Of course, the program is free. It has a Pro version, for even more advanced features, like working over a network or logging.

[EDIT] Followed BoBo's good advice on how to make useful titles for this section... seen in another thread (nomousy).

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vPhiLho := RegExReplace("Philippe Lhoste", "^(\w{3})\w*\s+\b(\w{3})\w*$", "$1$2")

example, saves all what I changed on desktop to second drive V$= drive H:
longtime not worked on it , but use every day when shutdown the computer
here a part from old script gwbasic shutdown.bas (or just use a batch script or AHK)

Thanks for the example, a bit cryptic
I got the habit to copy a line from the doc for each switch I use, so I can understand what it does even opening the file years later...
I maintain some batch files to do various backup tasks:


Note: in batch files, :backup is a label (I use it to mark a section, I have set up my text editor, SciTE, to highlight the whole line), and :: is often used for comments (ignored by batch processor).

I backup file without read-only attribute because tools like CVS (source repositories) usually put all files read-only, except those we asked to work on it. So read-only files are already in a repository, no need to backup them. Much faster.

Dev_NoBackup.lst is a text file containing a list of file pattern not to backup: (mostly files generated by Visual C++).

Note that XXCOPY freeware restricts network operations (with paths like \\server\xyz), but if they are mapped to L:\xyz drives, it works smoothly.

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vPhiLho := RegExReplace("Philippe Lhoste", "^(\w{3})\w*\s+\b(\w{3})\w*$", "$1$2")

merci Philippe,
copied your notice to XXCOPY_manual.txt , should work on it