Question

Linuxzoo

Tutorial 2

Question 6: cp Make the directory work your current directory and using an absolute path name, copy the file 'bigfile2' in the tutorial directory to the scripts directory.

Answer 1

First command to naviaget to work directory to make it current directory:

cd /path to work directory // this will take your terminal to work directory ( if your work directory is in the root directory then the absolute command will be : cd ~/work )

2. Next copying the file bigfile2

cp source destination

cp /path to bigfile2/bigfile2 /path to script directory [ie: cp ~/tutorial/bigfile2 ~/scripts, here tutorial is directory and scripts is a directory, and ~ is absolute path to those directory, and this command will copy the file named bigfile2 from tutorial directory to scripts directory. ]