Viewing and Changing the File System
Learn to manipulate directories and files from the command line.
StartKey Concepts
Review core concepts you need to learn to master this subject
cp
Copy
cp
Copy
$ cp file1 file1_copy
$ cp file1 file2 destination_folder
The shell command cp
is used to copy files or directories.
The basic argument structure is cp source destination
, where the source
is the file/directory to copy to the destination
file/directory.
Manipulation
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