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posting ads with us Super User Questions Tags Users Badges Unanswered Ask Question _ Super User xcopy invalid number of parameters server 2008 is a question and answer site for computer enthusiasts and power users. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Here's how it works: xcopy /s /z Anybody can ask a question Anybody can answer The best answers are voted up and rise to the top Why is xcopy returning “invalid number of parameters”? up vote 8 down vote favorite 2 Under some circumstances, xcopy will return
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the error Invalid number of parameters without giving you a clue as to what’s going on. The usual solution for this is to be sure that your filenames are enclosed in quotes, as this can be an issue with batch files where you have something like xcopy %1 %2 and you really need xcopy "%1" "%2". I recently ran into a problem, however, where the problem wasn't spaces: C:\Temp\foo>c:/windows/system32/xcopy.exe /f /r /i /d /y * ..\bar\ Invalid number of parameters windows command-line
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batch xcopy share|improve this question asked Feb 26 '10 at 0:36 Slothman 271128 migrated from stackoverflow.com Feb 27 '10 at 9:44 This question came from our site for professional and enthusiast programmers. add a comment| 1 Answer 1 active oldest votes up vote 13 down vote accepted The solution to this one was tricky: it turns out that xcopy is parsing the forward slashes in the path to its own binary. This works fine: C:\Temp\foo>c:\windows\system32\xcopy.exe /f /r /i /d /y * ..\bar\ C:\Temp\foo\blah -> C:\Temp\bar\blah 1 File(s) copied You can also run into this if you have your PATH defined using forward slashes instead of backslashes. share|improve this answer answered Feb 26 '10 at 0:37 Slothman 271128 Also if you're using this as a Post-build event, you have to make sure that you put quotes around the full path of $(TargetDir), as there might be spaces in the path: xcopy "$(TargetDir)*.dll" ..\..\Project.Web\bin –Highmastdon Jan 8 '15 at 12:17 This can also happen if you have forward slashes in Source or Destination Path. Just replace all forward slashes with backslashes in all the path that you pass to xcopy! –Juraj Petrik Nov 18 '15 at 15:06 add a comment| You must log in to answer this question. Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged windows command-line batch xcopy . asked 6 years ago viewed 27739 times active 3 years ago Related 1can't exclude path with a space (xcopy)4Be
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about hiring developers or posting ads with us Stack Overflow Questions Jobs Documentation Tags Users Badges Ask Question x xcopy 0 files copied Dismiss Join the Stack Overflow Community Stack Overflow is a community of 4.7 million programmers, just like you, helping each other. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Xcopy error http://superuser.com/questions/114178/why-is-xcopy-returning-invalid-number-of-parameters “Invalid number of parameters” when exclude parameter is set up vote 2 down vote favorite Issuing: xcopy X:\ "Y:\...\bin\9876543210\" /c /g /d /i /e /r /h /y works as expected. However; xcopy X:\ "Y:\...\bin\9876543210\" /c /g /d /i /e /r /h /y /exclude:"Y:\...\exclude.txt" returns error: Invalid number of parameters That error usually occurs when pathnames containing spaces are not enclosed by quotes; this however, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30651776/xcopy-error-invalid-number-of-parameters-when-exclude-parameter-is-set is not the case. Destination path (edited for readability) contains 75 characters (incl. last backslash, excl. quotes). Path to exclusion file 74 characters. Both correctly correspond to existing folder and file. Syntax (as per Microsoft Windows XP Professional Product Documentation - Xcopy) is also correct. Concerning OS is Windows XP Professional x32 SP3. Why is second cmd returning error and how is it to be solved? I am not looking for alternatives to xcopy (robocopy etc.). windows batch-file cmd dos xcopy share|improve this question asked Jun 4 '15 at 18:47 user4157124 3421312 add a comment| 2 Answers 2 active oldest votes up vote 5 down vote XCOPY is an old command harking back to the days of DOS. It looks like the /EXCLUDE option was never updated to support long file names. Ugh :-( If you remove the quotes, then the text after the space is interpreted as an additional parameter, and you get the "Invalid number of parameters" error. If you keep the quotes, then it treats the quotes as part of the path, and reports it cannot find the file. I believe you have three possible solutions: 1) Us
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