Command-line tools rule for many reasons, and Robocopy is one of the best ones.

It took me way too long to realize that Windows has a powerful file transfer utility built right into it. I assumed that it was a new tool I had missed, but no, it's been there since Vista. Most ...

The GUI is fine if you're only moving a few files, but for larger and more complex migrations, this built-in Windows utility is the way to go. There are many ways to get a file from Point A to Point B ...

I know robocopy is faster than the normal copy command for transferring many files over a network because of its multithreading. But for transferring a single file such as a multi-GB video, would ...

I am using a robocopy script to backup a lot of files to an external HDD, some small and some quite large (>1GB). Sometimes robocopy will hang on a larger file...until I press ctrl-c which rather than ...

Korbin is a Linux system administrator who spends most of his time in a terminal figuring out how things actually work. Over the last decade he's written hundreds of articles about Linux configuration ...