{"id":8736,"date":"2025-02-19T15:39:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T15:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/computing\/?p=8736"},"modified":"2025-02-21T15:52:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T15:52:06","slug":"copy-files-to-another-location-in-dos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/computing\/software\/dos\/copy-files-to-another-location-in-dos\/","title":{"rendered":"Copy files to another location in DOS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Example: Copy and overwrite files from drive A: to C:\\DOS in DOS 6.22, you can use the COPY command.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the basic syntax:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>COPY A:\\SOURCEFILE C:\\DOS\\DESTINATIONFILE<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Replace SOURCEFILE with the name of the file you want to copy from drive A:, and replace DESTINATIONFILE with the name you want for the copied file on drive C:\\DOS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want to copy all files from drive A: to C:\\DOS and overwrite existing files without prompting, you can use the \/Y switch:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>COPY A:\\*.* C:\\DOS\\ \/Y<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>This will copy all files from drive A: to C:\\DOS and automatically overwrite any existing files with the same names without prompting you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please note that the \/Y switch assumes you want to overwrite files without confirmation, so use it carefully to avoid unintentional data loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Example: Copy and overwrite files from drive A: to C:\\DOS in DOS 6.22, you can use the COPY command. Here&#8217;s the basic syntax: Replace SOURCEFILE with the name of the file you want to copy from drive A:, and replace DESTINATIONFILE with the name you want for the copied file on drive C:\\DOS. If you\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/computing\/software\/dos\/copy-files-to-another-location-in-dos\/\" class=\"rmlink\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":49,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[69],"class_list":{"0":"post-8736","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dos","8":"tag-copy","9":"entry"},"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/02\/ms_dos_sample-600x400.png","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/02\/ms_dos_sample-600x400.png","author_info":{"display_name":"Jack Alltrade","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/computing\/author\/jacka11trade\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8738,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8736\/revisions\/8738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}