cp is the command of the Unix operating system that is used to copy files.
Questions tagged [cp]
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Copy files in Linux, avoid the copy if files do exist in destination
I need to copy a /home/user folder from one hard disk to another one. It has 100,000 files and around 10G size.
I use
cp -r /origin /destination
sometimes I get some errors due to broken links, permissions and so on. So I fix the error, and need…
Open the way
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How can I use cp to copy a directory but ignore a certain sub directory in Linux
Due to a Hard disk problem I am trying to shift a partition from one hard disk to another. I am following http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-partplan.html article to do that. In the copying part I would like to ignore one particular sub…
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cp --backup=CTRL, why nil and never?
https://linux.die.net/man/1/cp
The backup suffix is '~', unless set with --suffix or SIMPLE_BACKUP_SUFFIX. The version control method may be selected via the --backup option or through the VERSION_CONTROL environment variable. Here are the…
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Why OSX cp -avr get this error: the -R and -r options may not be specified together?
I just want to copy a folder tree to another place like this:
cp -avr /blah/blah/htdocs ./
but I got error:
cp: the -R and -r options may not be specified together.
I followed this tutorial:…
Rob Lao
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cp verbose alternative
I want to list all of the files that are being copied by a cp command but the -v switch doesn't seem to exist on the servers here at work. I'm not sure exactly which OS this is. I think it might be SunOS. How could I find out if that is…
A Jackson
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how to copy all files from one location to another in linux
I want to copy all the folders and files in the
/var/www/ directory to another directory /media/magneto/
How do I do this?
I tried this command
cp -pRiv /var/www/ /media/magneto/
that didn't work because it basically created a directory called…
Jason
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Linux cp command is not silent
I know with a -f cp should be silent but it's not!
I do
cp -rf Functional Functionalssssssss
and if Functional does not exist, it says
cannot stat 'Functional'...
but I just don't want to see the error message!! I want to handle them myself
Cher
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cp didn't copy all files few files were missing
How is it possible that cp didn't copy all files from a huge directory?
I did cp on a large directory with 5000 files. I checked contents with diff and it was not matching! How is this possible?
I ran cp -rv devholidayge/ holiday/
user98645
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cp command inquiry
If I am in a directory called /usr/share/tcl8.3/encoding, what command would copy all files begining "cp" that also contain an even number (from the following list):
cp1250.enc cp1255.enc cp737.enc cp857.enc cp864.enc cp932.enc
cp1251.enc …
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Use `cp src/* des/` suppressing warning when encountering folders
How can I use cp src/* des/ for copying all files which are not directories and without receiving the warning
cp: is a directory (not copied).?
Nisba
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missing destination file operand when cp
i tried to use the Linux alias:
rm='cp $* ~/dustbin; rm $*'
but it reported 'missing destination file operand after ~/dustbin' ,
why didn't cp recognize ~/dustbin as destination ?
