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= See also =
* [http://man-wiki.net/index.php/1:cp cp's man page]
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* [http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?cp cp's man page]

Latest revision as of 06:46, 19 April 2014

The command cp is used to copy files. The following options are described here:

copy a file preserving its attributes

See cp -pr

copy all *.txt file to *.txt.bak

Most Linux distros use the bash shell, here the command is:

for i in *.txt; do cp $i $i.bak; done

See also