Linux, Windows, Security, Programming, Network Tutorials
Computer Clipboard is a special short term storage mechanism that is generally used to copy and paste text, image, graphics, files, and folders. The clipboard is also named as Pasteboard . Clipboard contents are stored inside RAM without a name with a generic name descriptor. Only the latest copied file, image, text, folder is stored … Read more
Powershell provides Copy-Item cmdlet to copy an item from one location to another location. This item can be a file, folder or directory. Copy-Item cmdlet provides different features and options like overwrite, filter, exclude, verbose, progress etc. In this tutorial, we will learn these features by examples. Copy File To Specified Directory We will start … Read more
Linux provides cp command in order to copy files, folders, and directories. But sometimes we may have some issues if we want to copy a folder or directory. In this tutorial, we will learn how to copy folders and directories with the cp command and provides solutions for problems. Syntax cp command has following general … Read more
Python provides different modules for copying and moving files. In this tutorial we will learn how to copy, move and operate recursively files with Python shutil Module. Copy Directories and Folders Recursively with copytree() Function We will start by copying source path directories and folders to the destination path recursively. Recursively means copying all current level … Read more
Linux provides different tools to copy directories entirely. The most popular and well-known tool is cp. In this tutorial, we will look at how to copy Linux directories entirely or specific content. Copy Only Directory In this first example, we will copy the only directory. We can just provide the source directory and destination directory … Read more
Robocopy or Robust File and Folder Copy application is very popular amongst Windows system administrators. Robocopy will copy the local or given file to the remote or destination location. robocopy Features The command robocopy provides very useful features for files copying over network. Below we will list some of them. Resume Interrupted Copy when the … Read more
Backup is important part of the Linux system administration. Without backups a system is not safe and also the system administrator position too 🙂 . There are different ways to take backup. Some tools provides user level backup operation like copying or sync files. Other backup tools provides more file system level backup operation. One … Read more
We have all ready a repository. Other developer Ken wants to join our project and give code support. How can we do that with with Git. Git have clone mechanism to copy existing repository easily. $ git clone /home/john/myproject/ . Cloning into ‘.’… done. $ ls main.py As we see we have cloned it with … Read more
Windows have different tools and commands to copy file, folders and subfolders. Xcopy is one of the most popular copying command. Xcopy comes builtin with all Windows operating systems. In this tutorial we will look different usage types and examples of Windows xcopy command. Help Help about xcopy command can be get with the following. $ xcopy … Read more