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need help with a .bat file xcopy command

I know I missing something simple here. This is what Im attempting to do.

I need to copy a file into mutilple users profiles on a citrix server and for some reason I cant get it to work. here is an example

xcopy "F:\Software\deployment.properties" "C:\Documents and Settings\%userprofile%\Application Data\Sun\Java\Deployment"

What is wrong with the command?

dtrance

Try
xcopy "F:\Software\deployment.properties" "C:\Documents and Settings\"%userprofile%"\Application Data\Sun\Java\Deployment"

bankadmin

ASKER

I got a invalid parameters error.. Also I used the exact command but specified a specific user instead of %userprofile% and it worked. So I know there are no mistakes in my paths

bankadmin

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I did a little more testing and I removed the docs and settings from the destination and it didnt error out but it just defaulted to the users I was running it with. i need it to copy to all users

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prashanthd

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prashanthd

Missed something, change line no 10 to following and try

desdir=sf.Path & "\Application Data\Sun\Java\Deployment\"

bankadmin

ASKER

THat worked. I had to click ok for each user but it worked..

THanks

prashanthd

If you run from command prompt using cscript file.vbs, it will not pop up message to click.

Thanks for the points.

regards
Prashanth