Robocopy all files except with particular character in filename
I don't think robocopy supports regular expressions, but it does support wildcards (that is, the asterisk *
).
So you'd include these wildcards when telling it what files to exclude using the /XF
flag.
robocopy *.jpg C:\source C:\dest /XF *_*.jpg
This works if the _
is at the beginning, middle, or end of the file.
If you have multiple characters to wanted to exclude (say, exclude files that have underscores (_
) and dashes (-
)) then just add another wildcard statement after the /XF
flag. You can list multiple parameters there, separated by spaces.
So something like
robocopy *.jpg C:\source C:\dest /XF *_*.jpg *-*.jpg
J3FFK
Updated on June 09, 2022Comments
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J3FFK almost 2 years
Using
robocopy
command I need to copy all files, but exclude files with particular character in the filename? For examlple copy all .jpg files with filenames containing underscore _ in it.I have tried this command, but it doesn't work:
Robocopy C:\SourceFolder C:\DestFolder ^[^_]+.jpg$
Could be something really simple I'm overlooking here, but what?
There is also /XF flag to exclude certain file types, but (how) can it be used to exclude filenames containing the underscore in the filename?