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

Windows is a bundle of both CLI and GUI tools. We use the GUI ones more because they serve a broader use case and are convenient to use. For file copying and moving, I hadn't ventured much outside the ...

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 ...

We've set up a new SAN device and are moving our user data to this device, generally one user at a time. We always have used Robocopy to preserve all the ACLs of the files and folders being moved, but ...

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 ...