Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 11/18/07 10:15

SJM (na) writes:
> Howdy, hope someone can help me out with this. I want to run a job each
> night that copies files from one server to another. I cant even get a
> simple copy one file from one directory to another, statement to work.
> When I try :
>
> @cmd 'copy c:\temp\file1.txt c:\backups\file1.txt'
> master.dbo.xp_cmdshell @cmd
>
> I get the msg: 'c' is not recognised as an internal command, program or
> batch file, Null.
>
> What I ideally want to do is pass xp_cmdshell variables for the 2 file's
> path+names. I have tried numerous variations of single and double quotes
> without success, which is why I decided to work up form the simple 'copy
> c:\temp\file1.txt c:\backups\file1.txt', but can't even get that to work.
> Any advice much appreciated.

I would guess you have made a mistake in the declaration of @cmd:

DECLARE @cmd varchar

this is the same as

DECLARE @cmd varchar(1)



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