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266 Managing Files and Directories

You can also use wildcards for more than searching: they can come in handy when you want to move

and rename ﬁles. And regular expressions can help you rename ﬁles with characters like * and ? in

them.

For more on that, read on.

17.5 Copying, Moving and Renaming Files and Directo-

ries

By now, you’ve learned a little about the structure of the ﬁlesystem; and you’ve learned how to create

ﬁles and directories.

But just because you know how to create ﬁles and directories doesn’tmeanthatyou’re stuck with

the changes you’ve made. What if you want to rename and/or move ﬁles and directories?

Let’s start with the copy command.

17.5.1 Copying Files

Like so many Linux features, you have a variety of options from which to choose when you want

to manipulate ﬁles and directories. You can also use wildcards when you’re copying, moving, or

deleting ﬁles and directories.

Basically, the copy command is not much more complex than typing:

cp <source> <destination>

so to copy the ﬁle sneakers.txt to the directory tigger in your login directory, just type:

cp sneakers.txt tigger

Notice that you also used relative pathnames to copy the ﬁle. You can use both relative and absolute

pathnames with cp. Our login directory is the parent of the directory tigger; meaning that tigger

is one directory down from ours.

Read the cp man page (man cp) for a full list of the options available with cp. But among the options

you can use with cp are:

-i – interactive. Prompts you to conﬁrm if the ﬁle is going to overwrite a ﬁle in your destina-

tion. This is a handy option because it can help prevent you from making mistakes.

-r – recursive. Rather than just copying all the ﬁles and directories, copies the whole directory

tree, subdirectories and all, to another location.

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