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how to copy dictory and file together.

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koeicjm

koeicjm

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Sep 12, 2001
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there are dictories and files too in a dictory, I want copy them to another dictory , how can I do it ?
I try cp -rp src_dir/* dist_dir/
but failed
 
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Try as

cp -r source_dir dest_dir

say u want to copy files and subdirectories in temp to another new directory temp1 then

cp -r temp temp1

Shantha
 
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