Is possible to use substrings in User Menu comands?

[rff1990]

Hello all,

I've trying to find some information about it but without any success.
What I'm trying to do is xcopy files from one folder to another folder. I'm using xcopy to only copy what's changed, like that:

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xcopy C:\source X:\destination /s /d

Simple to do in user menu. But what I want is to replace part of the $(Fullname) variable, something like that:

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xcopy C:\source_path\parent_folder\folder_to_copy  X:\Destination_Path\folder_to_copy /s /d

Change C:\source_path\parent_folder\ to X:\Destination_Path\ and keep the rest the same.

When renaming files in Salamander, I can use substrings, so I could select only the file name part I want for the second argument, but the same syntax doesn't work in user menu. Is this possible to achieve?

Thanks in advance.

[AD7]

Open source and target folders in panels and use variables that contains what you need.

Or,
create an simple Automation script where you can change the source path accordingly (and the destination path does not need to be opened in a second panel).