Universal copy command for Windows and Linux

Question

I was just curious that is there any universal command to copy files. Which should work for both Windows and Linux system.

I know Windows uses copy command and Linux uses cp command. But is there any universal command to do so.

Answer 1

If powershell is installed in your Windows OS, then you can use the built-in command cp as well, just like Linux does.

Answer 2

There is no universal command to do this, but you have several workarounds:

• use cygwin or msys on Windows to have the Linux equivalent commands on windows

• use Windows Powershell (partially compatible, but works for cp)

• provided that your environments all have python installed, write a python script that does what you want .