If, in Windows command prompt, the copy command doesn’t seem to work for you, here might be why.

Lately, with one of my Windows 7 computers, I’ve not been able to paste a text file to a new location: when I try to do so, I get a dialogue box telling me “Windows Explorer has stopped working.” More on that in another post.

In the meantime, I’ve reverted to the copy command. However, the first few tries, I couldn’t get it to work. Apparently the reason was that I was using forward slashes:

copy thisfile.txt ../thatdir   won’t work due to forward slash

copy thisfile.txt ..\thatdir   will work :)

It’s ironic: you can even use forward slashes to navigate in the command prompt. However, with the copy command, Windows apparently insists on backslashes.

HTH:)

Source: robert’s perl tutorial

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