Novice 10: Copying files

Copying files can achieved with the cp (copy) command. Remember to always specify a source and a target location. Let's create a copy of one of the files created in the previous step:

[learner learning_linux]$ cp earth.txt mars.txt
[learner learning_linux]$ ls
earth.txt  heaven.txt  mars.txt

What if we wanted to copy files from a different directory to our current directory? Let's put a file in our home directory (specified by ~ remember) and copy it to the current directory, learning_linux:

[learner learning_linux]$ touch ~/jupiter.txt
[learner learning_linux]$ ls ~
directory1  file1  jupiter.txt  learning_linux
[learner learning_linux]$ cp ~/jupiter.txt .
[learner learning_linux]$ ls
earth.txt  heaven.txt  jupiter.txt  mars.txt