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Robocopy – Robust File Copy for Windows is bundled with Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 and Vista. If you can not do something in xcopy, you probably can in robocopy. For example robocopy can: resume on network error, specify number of Retries, etc. ability to copy NTFS permissions and attributes including timestamps; synchronize mode; and …
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Yesterday I needed a Dos batch script to check if folder is empty. A little Google search revealed some methods: Using dir and find commands, does not work on non-english Windows versions: www.computing.net Using dir command with /a-d, does not work for folders: www.computing.net Using dir and findstr commands, does not work on non-english Windows …
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Sometimes you have to join two files together. There are plenty of tools for file spitting and joining (restoring), but I prefer the build in ones. Use copy command under Windows: copy /B file1.ext + file2.ext result_file.ext “B” stands for binary file Use cat command under Linux: cat file1.ext file2.ext > result_file.ext Here are two …
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