copy directory and its contents without using xcopy or robocopy

Question

xcopy and robocopy are not working when I try to transfer files to a remote drive, so i'm restricted to using del and copy until I can figure that out.

Here is what I have so far:

del /q y:\OPENcontrol\targetDir
for /d %%x in (y:\OPENcontrol\targetDir\*) do @rd /s /q "%%x"

copy c:\Users\CNC\share y:\OPENcontrol\targetDir

How can I copy folders and their contents without using xcopy or robocopy ?

Edit: This is on a CNC machine that is transferring files to its OPENcontrol module. The code needs to work within the limitations of the OSAI controller. A good example is that do (mkdir "destination\\%%i" copy "%%i\\*" "destination\\%%i") had to execute in two separate loop commands, one for mkdir and one for copy

Answer 1

As per my comment (not being 100% working at the time). a Simple for loop will be able to run through each folder, create it and copy its contents. There are better ways, but yes, you said you wanted to use copy specifically. So as per your ammended comment:

for /d /r "c:\Users\Nil\share" %%i in (*) do (
     mkdir "c:\Users\Nil\targetDir\%%~nxi"
     copy "%%i\*" "c:\Users\Nil\targetDir\%%~nxi"
)