[CLUE-Tech] The cp command

[Cyberclops]

Good point about the typing skills.  That's probably one big reason I'm
not fond of the CLI.
Brandon N wrote:
> 
> I don't quite follow what you are doing here:
> 
> > Franly this is in an example were a GUI just blows away an command
> > line.
> 
> 
> > cy at a24b161n139client142:~ > cp /home/cy/KDesktop/filetest
> > /homecy/KDektop/filetestnew
> > cp: cannot create regular file `/homecy/KDektop/filetestnew': No such
> > file or directory
> 
> I wonder, does /homecy/KDektop exist? there are a lot of typos in there
> 
> > cy at a24b161n139client142:~ > cd /home/cy/KDesktop
> > cy at a24b161n139client142:~/KDesktop > copy filetest filetestnew
> > Error: Try the command: cp -piv filetest filetestnew
> there is no copy command, too many letters to type
> 
> > cy at a24b161n139client142:~/KDesktop > cp -piv filetest filetestnew
> > `filetest' -> `filetestnew'
> 
> -piv isn't truly necessary, typing skills are.
> 
> Brandon
> 
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