using cp properly
 

I am in my current directory. I want to copy a directory somewhere else into this current directory. Lets say I want to take it from direc1/direc2 and the directory I want to take is called demo.

That is what it shows in the man pages, but when I do that, it says cp: no match

any help?

syntax cp options (like R for recursive) source destination.



cp -R /source/directory/ .


. = current working directory

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Hope this helps

You are literally typing in "[-irp]"??? That's.manpage marking for a choice you can make. Not literal things to type in.

Why do you include brackets []? The brackets in the manual pages show that whatever is inside is optional. Try without them.

Yeah that worked, thanks guys :$

In a lot of documentation, "[stuff]" means that "stuff" is optional, and "{stuff}" means that "stuff" can be repeated zero or more times.

Anyway, you can mark the thread as solved now.