Sharing files between the two can be critical at times and is surprisingly easy with the right tools. With fairly little effort, you can copy files from Windows to Linux or Linux to Windows.

You can access Windows Subsystem for Linux files using Explorer on Windows 11/10. Open Explorer from WSL Terminal or launch the root from Explorer.

Linux Can Access Windows Files, but It's Not Ideal Technically, you can move files around in a Linux-Windows dual boot system, but it’s not optimal.

If your linux filesystem is ext2 or ext3 then this works great. fs-driver I use this to access linux files in my dual boot system. If you are accessing a remote/networked linux computer from ...

Jack Wallen continues his Linux 101 series, with an introduction on how to copy files and directories from the command line.

If you need to share or transfer files between Linux machines, you have plenty of options. Here are some you might not have considered.

You can run a series of Linux commands to copy multiple files to a folder or copy a single file to multiple folders, but you can save time and trouble by using xargs, loops and scripts.