cp is the copy command.
For *nix:
Copy one or more files to another location
Copy SOURCE to DEST, or multiple SOURCE(s) to DIRECTORY.
For Windows
Allows the user to copy one or more files to an alternate location.
Questions tagged [cp]
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Linux Shell - How to copy directory without symlink
I would like to get everything inside one directory.
How can I copy entire directory (that originally contains files and symlinks) to a new directory that should contains all files but no symlink??
Thank you
Julio Fong
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copy and replace to folders to another fastest way - linux bash
I have a three folders: core, project and merge with many files inside.
I want to delete all files and folders (including dot files) inside the merge folder, and then copy all files (including dot files) from the core folder to the merge folder, as…
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Performance problem with QNAP TS-410 NAS
We have a QNAP TS-410 in our office. Its hardware is:
256MB DDR2 RAM
CPU Marvell 6281 800MHz
4 x 1.4GB Seagate SATA disks mounted on RAID5
We thought it would be sufficient to make backups for our servers, but we have encountered several…
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Getting Linux copy to handle failing links
I just started using the nifty rsnapshot utility for backups to our NAS. I really like the tool (which uses rsync and links unchanged files to keep the backup size down), but I'm running into problems copying certain links, e.g:
sudo /bin/cp -al…
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How to move and partially rename files on linux
I have versioned files which come out of a build pipeline.
foo-1.3.4.war
and I need to move these files to have the name
foo-dev-1.3.4.war
How would I go about this?
I was thinking something like
mv foo-*.war foo-dev-*.war but this will only…
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UNIX Copy/Move files in same directory preserving timestamp
Following is the scenario. There are multiple files in a directory created by users belonging to same unix group.
Unix Group: Prod.
User in Prod Unix Group: User1 User2 User3.
All 3 users have same privileges.
Scenario 1
If user3 wants to become…
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what is the best approach to copy /var content
we have linux redhar 7
we want to keep the /var on other volume
so the plan is to:
mkdir /var_copy
cp -rp /var/* /var_copy
umount /dev/mapper/vg-a-var /var
rm -rf /var
mkdir /var
mount /dev/mapper/vg-b-var /var
cp -rp /var_copy/* /var
so my…
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Most side effect-free way to archive a large file while it is being modified
I am looking after an application that generates a large amount of data in a log file (about 5G a day) on a Red Hat server. This process runs for 24 hours during the week, so there is no point in the day when the file is not being modified, although…
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nfs file transfers fail, "cp: cannot stat 'dir_name': No such file or directory" but sshfs works fine
We have a strange issue on our file server (Debian Wheezy 32-bit), where some files within folders contained in an nfs share fail during transfer using the cp command. Howerver, if we mount the same folder via sshfs and use that to transfer files,…
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Replacing directories that are subversion-monitored
We're trying to update an installed software which we have under control by subversion. The update instructions for the software require replacing several directories that have .svn directories in them.
Since we cannot replace these directories…
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Does cp -p apply to the source or destination file?
When I use -p to preserve the file permissions of a file being copied, does it apply to the source or the destination file (if it already exists)?
Thanks
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Estimating the time needed to copy a big file
I have to copy a relatively big file (6GB) to another server. To enforce consistency, I have to 'lock' this file and not use it during the transfer. I obviously want to minimize this downtime, but before this, I also want to estimate the time it…
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Copy all files to another location
I have a folder called "employee" and within that folder there are sub-folders with each employee name.
employee
>> amar
>> akbar
>> anthony
Each of these folders contain 1 or 2 files. There are around 50 employees. I want to copy all those files…
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Server Load Spikes On File Copy -- Server Goes Unresponsive
This has been a problem that we've been battling for some weeks. Whenever large files are copied on the server (both with rsync and cp) the server load initially goes up to 6 or 8 and stabilizes. At some point in the copy load will spike out of…
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using find, exec and cp to copy specific files while preserving directory path
I set up the following folders with empty text files:
1/a.txt
2/b.txt
I want to copy only txt files to another directory while maintaining their directory structure. So I tried the following commands:
mkdir -p temp/s;
find ./ -name '*txt' -exec cp…
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