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Copying Files and Directories


Notes:

# cp /home/alex/.bashrc /home/ddrew
is the same as
# cp /home/alex/.bashrc /home/ddrew/.bashrc
(given enough permissions)

cp -R means “copy everything under the source folder recursively”.

So, to copy the entire /var/log/ directory under /home/alex/, you would say:
# cp -R /var/log /home/alex

The new copy of /var/log would then be stored under /home/alex/log/