How to copy a file with one command to multiple directories on Linux | Linux Today

How to copy a file with one command to multiple directories on Linux

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Karim Buzdar
May 4, 2020

Cp is the command in Linux that is used to copy a file from one location to another. But what if we need to copy a file to multiple locations. There is a way I can show how to achieve that in Linux.

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Karim Buzdar

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