[Techtalk] New to the list...new to linux

[Julie]

Tianna Thomas wrote:
> 
> ACK!  I'm a Win NT admin trying to run a unix box for the first time and I'm
> just learning...well...nothing!
> 
> All of this command line stuff is giving me a serious headache...any help
> here would be appreciated.  Specifically, I need to copy the entire contents
> of one directory into another directory...is there a way to do this all at
> once or do I need to do it file by file? (Now's the time when I miss
> drag-n-drop and copy/paste).  Exact commands would be helpful...I'm
> completely lost (and a little nutz by now).

cp -r /directory/where/files/are/now /directory/where/they/go

For example, if you have a slew of files in /home/sue/myfiles
and you want to copy them all to /home/jane/suesfiles you would
run

cp -r /home/sue/myfiles/. /home/jane/suesfiles

"cp" will create the destination ("/home/jane/suesfiles") if it
doesn't exist.  The extra "/." on the end of the first directory
name keeps "cp" from putting the files in the wrong place.
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