I was wondering if this code was correct or not. I am trying to copy all the files and subdirectories in one directory to a newly created directory.


cp -R dir/*newdir/*


any suggestions?

cp -R directoryname newdirectoryname

I was wondering if this code was correct or not. I am trying to copy all the files and subdirectories in one directory to a newly created directory.


cp -R dir/*newdir/*


any suggestions?

cp -r dir/* newdir/

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