How to copy folder from windows machine to wsl

 

Hi, In this post, we will see how to copy folder from windows to wsl folder. Use comand like below.


Using mnt in wsl, we can access windows files

cp -r "/mnt/c/Users/YourName/Downloads/SourceFolder" /home/wslusername/TargetFolder/


Example:

cp -r /mnt/c/Users/bharathan/Downloads/Temp/* /home/admin/practice/Automation/Credentials/


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