<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Wikibooks has a book on the topic of: Guide to Unix / Commands / File System Utilities #cp </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Wikibooks has a book on the topic of: Guide to Unix / Commands / File System Utilities #cp </Td> </Tr> <P> cp is a UNIX command for copying files and directories . The command has three principal modes of operation, expressed by the types of arguments presented to the program for copying a file to another file, one or more files to a directory, or for copying entire directories to another directory . </P> <P> The utility further accepts various command line option flags to detail the operations performed . The two major specifications are POSIX cp and GNU cp . GNU cp has many additional options over the POSIX version . </P>

Unix command to copy a folder from one location to another