FAQ: Command Line Basics - cp

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This community-built FAQ covers the “cp” exercise from the lesson “Command Line Basics”.

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I’m working on the lesson, COMMAND LINE BASICS cp.

Step 5 asks “Using a single ls command, look at the contents of the historical/ directory.” I’ve typed in ‘ls’, and I think, successfully listed the contents of the ‘historical/’ directory, but still can’t get a green checkmark. I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong.

Here is an example of my command line:

$ pwd
>> /home/ccuser/workspace/movies-rpi/drama/historical
$ ls
>> gladiator.txt  notorious.txt  ray.txt  selma.txt
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I’m stuck at the same spot. Doing the same thing you are, not sure what is wrong. Were you able to get past it?

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I just figured it out! Instead of changing directory into drama/historical and using the ls command, stay in the /movies-rpi directory and use ls drama/historical to list the files in the subfolders but stay in the current working directory.

$ pwd
>> /home/ccuser/workspace/movies-rpi
$ cp drama/biopic/ray.txt drama/biopic/notorious.txt drama/historical
$ ls drama/historical
>> gladiator.txt  notorious.txt  ray.txt  selma.txt
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Great! Thank you for the help