Jack Wallen continues his Linux 101 series, with an introduction on how to copy files and directories from the command line.

You can run a series of Linux commands to copy multiple files to a folder or copy a single file to multiple folders, but you can save time and trouble by using xargs, loops and scripts.

I've got a file that I need to update some folders with. Problem is that I don't actually want to replace what's out there, I just want to drop the new one along side the old one. Another issue is ...

Learn how to copy the list of file , folder, and subfolder names to the clipboard in Windows 11/10 using Explorer or the DIR command in CMD.

Finally, run this command to copy all the files in the subfolders to a main folder. Here, replace MainFolder with the destination folder’s location.

The drag-and-drop method will put all of the files in the same folder. The DOS-like command line approach will preserve the folder structure of the original source.