Cp Unix command

cp copies files (or, optionally, directories). Part of GNU coreutils.
Homepage:	http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/cp-invocation.html
License:	GNU General Public License
Function:	File Copy

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.

User Experiences

• My experience with using cp to copy a lot of files (432 millions, 39 TB)