Good afternoon.

I want xcopy to copy all files meeting a certain criteria located in the C drive to a specific folder, except ones located in the directories specified in excl.txt. The exclusions only work partially - the files located in %systemroot%, %programfiles% and in each profile's appdata are still copied, even though those directories are listed in excl.txt.

How do I make xcopy skip those directories, preferentially still using environment vars to specify the paths?

My current syntax is:

xcopy /s /c /d /h /i /r /y /g /f /EXCLUDE:excl.txt %systemdrive%\*.doc f:\test\

excl.txt currently contains the following:

\%temp%\

\%userprofile%\appdata

\%programfiles%\

\%programfiles(x86)%\

\%systemroot%\

\%programdata%\

appdata

windows

%programfiles%

Thank you very much.