The Material Utilities add-on is one option but it is still in beta most the functions work but might still have to tweak there is also the Copy Attributes Menu which is another add-on that is not turned on by default but has to ability to copy multiple attributes from mesh to another and I think it does include the ability to copy the materials from one mesh to another 

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