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Copying Files

The course 'Managing Files Using Bash and Z Shell' by Mateo Prigl teaches how to copy files using the cp command. It explains that the command can also copy directories with the recursive option and highlights a specific behavior on macOS regarding trailing slashes. Users are advised to be cautious about how they specify directories when copying.

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Copying Files

The course 'Managing Files Using Bash and Z Shell' by Mateo Prigl teaches how to copy files using the cp command. It explains that the command can also copy directories with the recursive option and highlights a specific behavior on macOS regarding trailing slashes. Users are advised to be cautious about how they specify directories when copying.

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"Managing Files Using Bash and Z Shell" course by Mateo Prigl at Pluralsight

Copying Files
$ cp file file_copy

The above command will make a copy of the file and call it file_copy.
You can also copy directories with the r recursive option.
If the last argument is a directory, the file will be copied to that directory. You
can decide if you want to provide a name for the copy or not.
Watch out when you copy directories on macOs. If the directory you want to
copy ends with a slash, that means that only the contents will be copied over,
not the directory itself.

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