CompTIA A+ Core 2 (220-1202), Domain 1, Objective 1.5 focuses on file-management commands available from the Windows command line. Every technician needs to create folders, remove directories, and move or duplicate large sets of files reliably, often across a network or inside a script. Knowing exactly which command to reach for, and which switches change its behavior, is the difference between a clean migration and accidentally deleting a user's profile.
In this article you'll learn how to create and remove directories with md/mkdir and rmdir/rd, how to copy and move files with copy, xcopy, robocopy, and move, the most common switches for each, and how to choose the right tool for a given help-desk task.