Windows - Copying Files & Directories

​In Powershell, the command used to copy something is CP. ​We also need to add a file that we want to copy and ​the path of where we want to copy it to. ​Let’s copy mycoolfile.text to the desktop. ​There you can see mycoolfile.text was added to our desktop.

 use something called the wildcard to help me copy over multiple ​files at once. ​A wildcard is a character that’s used to help select files based on a certain ​pattern.

 let’s say I want to copy over a directory. ​I’m going to try to copy a folder called Bird Pictures to my desktop. ​Let’s just go back into Documents. ​There’s Bird Pictures, now cp “Bird Pictures” to Desktop. ​Now, this does exactly what we told it to do. ​It copies the directory, but the directory is empty.