Invalid number of paramters with xcopy

Question

I am using the command below:

C:\>xcopy /i /e %IDF_PATH%\examples\get-started\hello_world F:\Projekt1\Eclipse_kodok

The problem is every time I get the error:

Invalid number of parameters

Is there any method to solve this problem?

(I'm a beginner command prompt user.)

The error is no more or less than Invalid number of parameters. That's it. — Błoom, Nov 06 '19 at 11:58
Possible dupe: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30651776/xcopy-returns-error-invalid-number-of-parameters-when-exclude-parameter-is-set — Vincent, Nov 06 '19 at 12:12
Does this answer your question? [xcopy returns error "Invalid number of parameters" when exclude parameter is set](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30651776/xcopy-returns-error-invalid-number-of-parameters-when-exclude-parameter-is-set) — Jonathan, Mar 07 '23 at 09:02

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 15 '19 at 23:19

First of all, try including source and destination in quotes (it is likely that %IDF_PATH% contains spaces).

Second, if the destination is a directory, use the backslash at the end.

like this:

xcopy /i /e "%IDF_PATH%\examples\get-started\hello_world" "F:\Projekt1\Eclipse_kodok\"

If the destination is a file, try to use this undocumented feature of xcopy:

xcopy /i /e "%IDF_PATH%\examples\get-started\hello_world" "F:\Projekt1\Eclipse_kodok*"

Hope this helps :-)

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