Cp equivalent windows

Is that what you meant? Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. GabrielF GabrielF 1, 1 1 gold badge 14 14 silver badges 29 29 bronze badges. There must be something as I've been able to run the command as "cp" on a windows server before — Satch Oh, well I've never seen it. But maybe it was Cygwin , MinGW or something like that?

I use Cygwin and really like it. Btw, I just confirmed you can use cp from Windows prompt if you have Cygwin installed. And it also has rsync , which is a far more complete tool if you're not just copying one file around e. Cygwin has bunch of packages to select from when installing. Which should be selected? Download the cygwin package from cygwin.

If the destination file exists, the above command will overwrite the same without asking the user for confirmation. When we specify a directory path as the destination, the files will be copied with the same name. We can assign a different name by specifying the new name in the destination path.

Example is shown below. If the file name has white space within it, we can wrap up the name in double quotes.

Example: To copy file, my resume. However, we can use wildcards to identify a group of files and then copy all of them in a single command.

We can use environment variables in the copy command to specify the path of the folders. The above command copies the file to the My Documents folder of the current logged in user. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. What is the equivalent of "cp --verbose" on windows for copy? Ask Question. Asked 8 years, 1 month ago. Active 7 years ago.

Viewed 30k times. I tried giving the option -v but I'm getting the following error. The system cannot find the file specified if I use the command cp I get : 'cp' is not recognized as an internal or external command Thanks in advance.

Improve this question. Der Hochstapler 83k 57 57 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. What's the actual command you're trying to use when Copy with -v gives you that error? Are you remembering to delimit file paths that have spaces in them? To get the prompt with Unix, use rm -i. The i means "interactive". On Windows, the equivalent is start command. See How to run a Windows command as a background job like Unix?