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Linux Cp or Copy Command

Linux popular command cp is used to copy files and folders. In this tutorial we will look different usage types of cp command.

Syntax

Syntax of cp command is like below.

cp [OPTION]... [-T] SOURCE DEST 
cp [OPTION]... SOURCE... DIRECTORY 
cp [OPTION]... -t DIRECTORY SOURCE...

Copy

We will just copy our source file to the destination file.

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