How to get xcopy to accept dirname such as !!testdir. i.e. with those chars in it: !! ?

[abrogard]

I can put this in a cmd prompt:
copy e:\topdir\!!nextdir testdir
and it does it no trouble at all.
but put that line in a batch file and run it and it says it cannot find the file.
same with xcopy.
same with robocopy.
Must be the '!!' bit, I think. What can I do about it?

 

[VBService]

Check this: copy "e:\topdir\!!nextdir" testdir