• 1. Introduction
• 2. Previous article: brief comparison between robocopy and rsync
• 3. Slow rsync with WebDAV
• 4. Installing Rclone on Linux: repository or official website?
• 5. Configuring Rclone

1. Introduction

• Robocopy: The “Robust File Copy” is a built-in powerhouse for Windows users. It’s the native way to handle massive local transfers or network shares (SMB) while perfectly preserving NTFS permissions.

• Rsync: The de facto standard for the Unix world (Linux and macOS). It’s famous for its efficiency—instead of re-copying everything, it only syncs the specific parts of a file that have changed.

• 1. Introduction
• 2. What is the “Super” Key?
• 3. What is the Taskbar?
• 4. The Core Concept: Super + Number
• 5. To Pin or Not to Pin? That is the Question.
• 6. More Than Just Windows: The “Super + Number” Shortcut on Linux
• 7. Beyond the OS: Browsers and Outlook
• 8. The Bottom Line

1. Introduction

In modern desktop environments, from Windows to mainstream GNU/Linux distributions, Alt+Tab remains the go-to shortcut for window switching.

• Copy and Paste: the universal method.
• A short introduction to the Command Line in MS Windows.
• Two integrated command-line solutions: xcopy and robocopy.
• Basic scheme and some options, among many, of the robocopy command.
• Robocopy and batch procedures.
• Robocopy and Rsync.
• FreeFileSync

Copy and Paste: the universal method.

To transfer files from one folder to another folder we usually use “copy and paste.”

Article on how to copy a list of files in a folder and paste the list into an open document. The operation is performed only with resources internal to the tested operating systems, which are MS Windows, GNU/Linux (Arch, Fedora and Ubuntu) and macOS, although in the last one, only in command-line mode.

• 1. Topic of this article.
• 2. Command line solution in MS Windows.
• 3. Command-line solution in GNU/Linux and macOS.
• 4. Graphical solution in Windows with File Explorer.
• 5. Graphical solution in Linux with File Manager.

1. Topic of this article.

Have you ever had a folder on your computer full of files and need to insert the list of those files in a page you are editing?