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

Heya Guys,I was just looking thru the docs for Robocopy and I found that I can exclude specific files, but I couldn't find a way to include only specific files I want to copy.For instance, I want ...

You can run a series of Linux commands to copy multiple files to a folder or copy a single file to multiple folders, but you can save time and trouble by using xargs, loops and scripts.

This only happens when doing robocopy from a SYSTEM folder (My documents, My pictures, etc) but not when I create a non-system folder and copy the contents to a destination folder than I created.