Suppress bat file automated input

Question

I'm using the command echo f | xcopy /f /y srcfile destfile as found here, and it works great, but it still shows up.
I've tried prepending 1>nul and 2>nul to completely suppress it, but that had undesired results. I do need to use xcopy and I do need to specify the target filename.

Answer 1

Try using

@echo off
echo f | xcopy /f /y srcfile destfile >nul