n/m...i just figured it out

Thanks anyhow

Technically, you can't "move" any file from a CD (unless it's a CD-RW... ).

You can either navigate to the source or target directory to copy a file.

From source directory:
cd /path/to/file/to/copy
cp filename /path/to/destination

From destination directory:
cd /path/to/destination
cp /path/to/file/filename .

And do you mean moving from one directory to another, or from/to users' home directories? The tilde "~" represents the current user's home directory. For root, this is the /root directory. For a user, it's the /home/user directory

werd! That's was basically what I came up with (tho you explained it way better). Credit to you man....thanks

hehe im glad you figured it out but i havent

Im trying to move a file from cdrom to my home directory (which i assume is the standard place to stick stuff)

i went into the cdrom and typed

cp filename ~

and it said "cp: cannot create regular file '/home/jason/filename': Permission denied"

I did "su" and typed the same thing and it went into my root directory instead of in the directory of the user i was logged in as. Anyone know why I dont have permission? Thanks for any help

edit: i cant do anything with my username! I tried to untar the file and it said cannot create file no directory exists or something like that. I then did su and put in my root pw and it did it with no problems

You might want to check the permissions of your homedir, and perhaps what group your user is in.
On a side note, I would always "su -" instead of "su".