LXer: Two great uses for the cp command: Bash shortcuts
 

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Last July, I wrote about two great uses for the cp command: making a backup of a file, and synchronizing a secondary copy of a folder.Having discovered these great utilities, I find that they are more verbose than necessary, so I created shortcuts to them in my Bash shell startup script. I thought I’d share these shortcuts in case they are useful to others or could offer inspiration to Bash users who haven’t quite taken on aliases or shell functions.read more

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