Make a copy of a file and give it a different name mac terminal

Question

Mac.

I'm in a directory dogs/scripts/cats.

Within this directory there is a file bla.txt.

I would like to make a copy of bla.txt called bla2.txt and keep it in the same directory.

How do I do that?

cp bla.txt dogs/scripts/cats

'bla.txt' and `dogs/scripts/cats/bla.txt' are the same file

Mureinik · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-05T16:36:13.107

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cp can get a name of a target file:

cp bla.txt ./bla2.txt

Or even simpler, as Mark noted:

cp bla.txt bla2.txt

edited May 05 '15 at 16:36

answered May 05 '15 at 15:44

Mureinik

Thank you, knew it had to be something simple but google searches kept telling me how to copy the file to a new directory with the file having the same name – Doug Fir May 05 '15 at 16:00
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I understand that `./` means *"the current directory"* but what's the logic of introducing that here, when `cp bla.txt bla2.txt` does exactly the same thing but more simply? – Mark Setchell May 05 '15 at 16:34
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Tell me about it :-) :-) – Mark Setchell May 05 '15 at 16:49

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