Copy (command)

copy is a shellcommand for copyingfiles.

Different implementations provide various capabilities, such as:

• Combining (concatenating) multiple files into a single file
• If multiple source files are specified before the path to an existing directory, then files are copied to the directory
• Support for text vs. binary data; for text, the command stops when it reaches an end-of-file (EOF) character; for binary, files are copied in their entirety, ignoring EOF
• In DOS, a file can be copied to or from a device. For example, copy path con outputs the file at path to the console, and copy con path copies text typed at the console to a file at path