From faed93cbae21a303ac6fbd2025a49fb4ed45eb37 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Waldir Pimenta Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 22:47:41 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] cp: remove leading / from paths; add -i example --- pages/common/cp.md | 16 ++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/pages/common/cp.md b/pages/common/cp.md index ba3177ef1..0190aa959 100644 --- a/pages/common/cp.md +++ b/pages/common/cp.md @@ -4,24 +4,28 @@ - Copy a file to another location: -`cp {{/path/to/file.ext}} {{/path/to/copy.ext}}` +`cp {{path/to/file.ext}} {{path/to/copy.ext}}` - Copy a file into another folder, keeping the filename: -`cp {{/path/to/file.ext}} {{path/to/target/parent/folder}}` +`cp {{path/to/file.ext}} {{path/to/target/parent/folder}}` - Copy a folder recursively to another location: -`cp -r {{/path/to/folder}} {{/path/to/copy}}` +`cp -r {{path/to/folder}} {{path/to/copy}}` - Copy a folder recursively into another folder, keeping the folder name: -`cp -r {{/path/to/folder}} {{/path/to/target/parent/folder}}` +`cp -r {{path/to/folder}} {{path/to/target/parent/folder}}` - Copy a folder recursively, in verbose mode (shows files as they are copied): -`cp -vr {{/path/to/folder}} {{/path/to/copy}}` +`cp -vr {{path/to/folder}} {{path/to/copy}}` - Copy the contents of a folder into another folder: -`cp -r {{/path/to/source/folder/*}} {{/path/to/target/folder}}` +`cp -r {{path/to/source/folder/*}} {{path/to/target/folder}}` + +- Interactively copy text files in the current directory to another location: + +`cp -i {{*.txt}} {{path/to/source/}}