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| − | |purpose= cp copies files (or, optionally, directories). | + | |purpose=cp copies files (or, optionally, directories). Part of GNU coreutils. |
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| − | |homepage= http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/cp-invocation.html | + | |license=GNU General Public License |
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| + | |ohloh_id=cp Unix command | ||
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= Description = | = Description = | ||
cp copies files (or, optionally, directories). The copy is completely independent of the original. You can either copy one file to another, or copy arbitrarily many files to a destination directory. | cp copies files (or, optionally, directories). The copy is completely independent of the original. You can either copy one file to another, or copy arbitrarily many files to a destination directory. | ||
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= User Experiences = | = User Experiences = | ||
| + | * [http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2014-08/msg00012.html My experience with using cp to copy a lot of files (432 millions, 39 TB)] | ||
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Latest revision as of 19:22, 20 April 2021
Description
cp copies files (or, optionally, directories). The copy is completely independent of the original. You can either copy one file to another, or copy arbitrarily many files to a destination directory.