How to Copy Files in Linux

Video Transcript

"Hi! My name is Dave Andrews. Today I'm going to show you how to copy files in Linux. Copying files in Linux can be don by a simple command line entry. Here's my Linus computer. I have a file here, test.cpp. That I want to make a copy of. First let's open it up. And as you can see, there is the text. It's inside test.cpp. What I'm going to do is, copy that file to a test2 file. So just say cp for copy. Space test.cpp. Which is the name of your input file. And the name of the output file. Test2.cpp. Press enter and that command is executed. Now if I'll do a directory listing. You can see that I have both, a test.cpp and a test2.cpp. Let's open up test2 and make sure that it copied correctly. There is the text that's in test2. It's that easy to copy files in Linux. My name is Dave Andrews. And I've just showed you how to copy files in Linux."