XCOPY COMMAND FOR MAC OS

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Does Mac OS have an equivalent operating command as xcopy for the microsoft operating system?

Posted on Feb 8, 2014 8:42 AM

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Answer 1

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Depending on exactly what you are wanting to do, there are several copy utilities such as cp, ditto or rsync.

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Answer 2

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Or, from Terminal app:

man cp
man ditto
man rsync

and to see these in Preview as PDF:

Terminal:

man -t cp | open -f -a /Applications/Preview.app

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