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copied!<p>I'm calling a .bat file to XCOPY a folder. Is there anyway to pass the file name and the destination into the batch file?</p> <p>My .bat file </p> <pre><code>XCOPY %1 %2 pause </code></pre> <p>The code I'm using to call the .bat is this:</p> <pre><code>process.Start(@"C:\Documents and Settings\cmolloy\My Documents\Test\XCOPY.bat"); </code></pre> <p>I've tried this code</p> <pre><code>process.Start(@"C:\Documents and Settings\cmolloy\My Documents\Test\XCOPY.bat" , copyfrom copyto); </code></pre> <p>As i've used that before for shutting down my comp, but it doesn't work with this.</p> <p>Thanks</p> <p><strong>Update</strong></p> <pre><code>process.StartInfo.FileName = @"C:\Documents and Settings\cmolloy\My Documents\Test\XCOPY.bat"; process.StartInfo.Arguments = copyFrom.ToString(); process.StartInfo.Arguments = copyTo.ToString(); process.Start(); </code></pre> <p>That is the code I'm using but It doesn't work. I'm getting this from the XCOPY screen: <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/7fcV6.png" alt="enter image description here"></p> <p>So it doesn't look like its taking the full file paths. copyto and copyfrom are variables that contain the paths.</p> <p><strong>UPDATE</strong></p> <p>Using azhrei's code:</p> <pre><code>String batch = @"C:\Documents and Settings\cmolloy\My Documents\Test\XCOPY.bat"; String src = @"C:\Tricky File Path\Is Here\test1.txt"; String dst = @"C:\And\Goes Here\test2.txt"; String batchCmd = String.Format("\"{0}\" \"{1}\" \"{2}\"", batch, src, dst); process.StartInfo.FileName = "cmd.exe"; process.StartInfo.Arguments = String.Format("/k \"echo {0}\"", batchCmd); process.Start(); </code></pre> <p>I'm getting this output: <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/h7Enf.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></p> <p>Which isn't actually copying the file.</p>

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