Copying Files - macOS Terminal
00:00
Let’s move on a little bit. So we were, or we still are, in the pb_terminal/
folder, where you created the file hello_terminal.py
.
00:09
With ls
, you can list the contents of the current directory. And now I want you to copy this file, the hello_terminal.py
file, into a subdirectory named hello/
. How would you go with this?
00:24
Okay, so I would go about this by first making the subdirectory. I’m going to say makedir hello
, you said? That’s the name of the directory, yeah.
00:34
Okay, so I make this directory. Then I can check, is it here? You can see now when I list the contents of pb_terminal/
, I have both the file and also folder, and it colors the folders differently than files, so there’s, there’s a bit of this color-coding going on as well.
00:49
And now I am going to copy hello_terminal.py
into hello/
. And then I don’t even need to give it a name. If I don’t specify a name, then it’s just going to use the same name. Okay, cool.
01:04
So, cp
stands for copy? Yes. Okay. So, when you’re now moving into the hello/
directory, then there should be the same file again. And it also has the same content.
01:19
Perfect. So it’s basically like using copy and paste on the Finder. Yeah. And the other one’s still here too. So here I still have—oops, just because I did it, when I press Tab here, because there’s both a hello/
folder and hello_terminal
, it gives me the option to choose.
01:39 I can tab through it and then select the one I want and press Enter.
01:44
Okay. Just, but we want it to be inside of here, right? Inside of the hello/
folder.
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