How Do I Copy Multiple Directories in Linux?
Contents in Order to Copy Multiple Directories on Linux, You Have to Use the “Cp” Command and List the Different Directories to Be Copied as Well as the...
In order to copy multiple directories on Linux, you have to use the “cp” command and list the different directories to be copied as well as the destination folder. As an example, let’s say that we want to copy the “/etc” directory as well as all homes directories located in the “/home” directory.
How do you copy multiple directories in UNIX?
The short answer is no. You can not use GNU/cp or BSD/cp to copy a single file to multiple directories. However, you can use combination of cp and xargs/parallel and other commands to copy a single file to multiple directories in MacOS, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and Unix-like systems.
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Similarly, you can copy an entire directory to another directory using cp -r followed by the directory name that you want to copy and the name of the directory to where you want to copy the directory (e.g. cp -r directory-name-1 directory-name-2 ).
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