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$ whatis cp

cp cp (1) - copy files and directories

cp cp (1) - copy files

Examples:

Please see the following examples for 'cp' command:

-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 3049 2011-04-07 23:48 toc.html

toc.html: html document

-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 3049 2011-04-07 23:48 toc.html

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3049 2011-04-08 01:52 toc.html.bak

4.0K toc.html

3.5K toc.html.bak

4.0K toc.html

3.5K toc.html.bak

-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 3049 2011-04-07 23:48 toc.html

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3049 2011-04-08 01:52 toc.html.bak

-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 3049 2011-04-07 23:48 toc.html

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3049 2011-04-08 01:52 toc.html.bak

-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 3049 2011-04-07 23:48 toc.html.newbak

drwxr-xr-x+ 5 root root 8 2011-02-26 13:55 TOC

TOC: directory

drwxr-xr-x+ 5 root root 8 2011-02-26 13:55 TOC

drwxr-xr-x+ 5 root root 8 2011-02-26 13:55 TOC.bak

343K TOC

343K TOC.bak

diff: TOC.html: No such file or directory

Common subdirectories: TOC/Media and TOC.bak/Media

Common subdirectories: TOC/Scripts and TOC.bak/Scripts

Common subdirectories: TOC/Table_of_Contents_files and TOC.bak/Table_of_Contents_files

total 17

-rw-r--r-- 1 501 501 679 2011-02-15 00:04 feed.xml

-rw-r--r-- 1 501 501 319 2011-02-15 00:04 index.html

drwxr-xr-x+ 2 501 501 3 2011-02-15 00:04 Media

drwxr-xr-x+ 3 501 501 4 2011-02-15 00:04 Scripts

drwxr-xr-x+ 2 501 501 14 2011-02-15 00:04 Table_of_Contents_files

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9529 2011-02-26 13:55 Table_of_Contents.html