Cp: Cannot Create Regular File '/Home/Documents': Permission Denied
I Am Learning Linux Cli, I Created a File App. Txt in Home Directory. Now I Am Copying It Through Cli to Documents and It Is Showing Me an Error: Cp: Cannot...
I am learning linux CLI, I created a file app.txt in home directory. Now I am copying it through CLI to Documents and it is showing me an error:
cp: cannot create regular file '/home/Documents': Permission denied
P.S (I have checked whoami and it is showing zain which is my root)
Can anyone confirm what is wrong with it ?
2 Answers
I will assume you attempted to copy app.txt while in your home directory.
Since your root directory is zain, specifying /home/Documents as the destination path will result in an error as the CLI will go back to zain directory (due to /) and then look for the home directory, which is absent under it.
Instead, you just need to specify Documents as the destination path as follows. Again, I am assuming you are still in your home directory.
cp app.txt Documents
give 777 (readable, writable and executable) permissions to file or directory
sudo chmod -R 777 /folder-location
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