Ubuntu Copy File Command

In Ubuntu, the cp command is used to copy files and directories.

Here’s the basic syntax of the cp command:

Where SOURCE is the file or directory that you want to copy, and DEST is the destination directory where you want to copy the file to.

For example, to copy a file named file.txt to a directory named dest_dir/, use the following command:

You can also use options with the cp command to specify how it should handle the copy operation. For example, the -r option is used to copy directories recursively:

This will copy all files and subdirectories in source_dir to dest_dir/.

There are many other options available with the cp command, such as -v for verbose output, -n for no clobber, -u for update, and so on. For more information on these options, run man cp in the terminal to access the manual page.