In Linux, the command ???cp???, which standards for ???Copy??? is used to copy files and folders to another folder. It is available by default in Linux as part of the GNU Coreutils set of tools.
The most basic use of the cp command is to specify the files to be copied as the arguments and to specify the target folder as the last argument.
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