Many people who use PuTTY to make secure connections between Windows desktops and Unix servers are unaware that PuTTY also provides a tool for securely moving files between the two platforms. The ...

Either of these commands let you securely transfer files between computers, but there are good reasons to know them both.

Secure Copy is a UNIX standard used to transfer files from one computer to another. He's how to use the function in macOS, all via the Terminal window.

There's more to copying and renaming files on Linux than cp and mv. Try some commands and strategies that might surprise you and save you some time.

A lot of information is available about individual files on a Unix system. For example, the ls -l command will display the permissions matrix and ls -i will display a file’s inode. But, if we ...

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

Next time you want to change directories (cd to a folder deep in your filesystem but you're looking directly at that folder on your desktop, for example, just type in cd, then drag and drop that ...

Brien walks you through one of Hyper-V's best features: its ability to copy a file directly from a host server to a virtual machine without leveraging the network stack.

Docker file copy command This Docker copy (cp) command takes a file that exists inside a Docker container and saves it to your computer’s local file system. The container-name specified in the example ...

Here is an example of a conflicted file: Settings (TJ Luoma's conflicted copy 2013–01–09).textexpander As you can probably guess, the original filename is Settings.textexpander and Dropbox has ...