Web Design in a Nutshell

Name

cp

Synopsis

                        cp [old ] [new ]

This makes a copy of a file where old is a pathname to the original file and new is the name you want to give the copy of the file. (This is similar to the “save as” function in an application.) The following sample code makes a copy of the file art.html and names the copy art2.html.

     % cp art.html art2.html

cp [file] [directory]

This puts a copy of the original file into an existing directory. The following sample code makes a copy of art.html and puts it in Richard’s work directory:

% cp art.html /user/richard/work