To copy the file named REPORT to the same drive or directory and name the copy FACTS, type the following and press Enter:
COPY REPORT FACTS
Now you have two files on the current drive that have the same contents but different names. In this example, you can omit the drive designators because the original file and the copy are both on the current drive.
You can use wildcard characters to copy a group of files. There are two wildcard characters: * and ?. The asterisk represents any group of characters and the question mark represents any single character.
For example, to copy all the files on the diskette in drive A to the diskette in drive B, type the following and press Enter:
COPY A:*.* B:
To copy all files with names that begin with the four letters MEMO and end with any single character (such as MEMO1), type the following and press Enter:
COPY A:MEMO? B:
You can also use the COPY command to combine several files into one file. For example, to create a new file called DATA that consists of the files REPORT, FACTS, and MEMO, type the following and press Enter:
COPY REPORT + FACTS + MEMO DATA
Now the file DATA consists of REPORT followed by FACTS followed by MEMO.