Tuesday, January 18, 2011

robocopy

Windows has a fairly sophisticated tool to copy files and directories. It is called robocopy (Robust Copy). The name is somewhat unfortunate: a colleague was thinking I was pulling her leg explaining I was using robocopy in copying back solution data sets from a complex model to a web based tool:

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May be they should have used a more official-looking name (like syscopy).

1 comment:

  1. Robocopy is great for batch programming and with windows 7 it now has multi-thread capabilities

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