Command Line - Command for paste

Question

I am using the command line and i accessed a folder with pictures. I copied the image using " copy football image".

I was wondering what is the command to paste the image in another folder? i just want to learn how to do it in command line windows 10.

Answer 1

Hi Ricardo, I am Rob, a volunteer and a 10 time and dual award MVP specializing in Windows troubleshooting and Bluescreen analysis. Please remember as volunteers we are not responsible for the development of Windows or the computer hardware and drivers.

The Command Prompt (CMD) uses DOS type commands. So COPY specifies the file to be copied and the destination where the copy is to be placed. So there is no need for Paste.

Microsoft DOS and Windows Command Line

https://www.computerhope.com/msdos.htm

Please let us know the results and if you need further assistance.

Answer 2

Hi Ricardo, there is no paste command in Command Prompt as such, you use the copy command to both copy and copy and paste:

This example will copy Example.txt from the users Desktop to D:\backup

copy C:\Users\DaveM\desktop\Example.txt D:\backup\Example.txt

Currently a better command than copy is xcopy, see the article below to read up on that command:

https://ss64.com/nt/xcopy.html

Answer 3

The command line supports several types of copy commands:

Copy: If you just want to copy files or folders from location to the other.

Xcopy: A robust copy option suitable for copying the contents of a folder with subfolders to a destination folder. Xcopy is being superseded by Robocopy which provides the same functionality.

Here are some examples how to use these copy commands.

I want to copy the PowerPoint presentation named Evolution of the Settings interface.pptx to the Work folder located in the Groovy folder we created earlier. First, change your directory to the location of the file.

In my case, the PowerPoint file is in my User folder under Documents. First, type the copy command, followed by a file name with open and close quotes then the file path destination, example: copy “Evolution of the Settings interface.pptx” c:\Users\Andre\Documents\Sample\Groovy\Work

Since Robocopy has superseded Xcopy, we are just going to focus on using that command for this example. Robocopy includes a number of arguments you can use to copy lots of folders thoroughly. It’s particularly great for creating backups. For instance, if I want to make a backup copy of my Downloads folder to a folder on my thumb drive named Backup, this is how you do it.

robocopy “D:\Users\Andre\Downloads” “F:\Backup”

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