CP(C)                    XENIX System V                     CP(C)



     Name
          cp - Copies files.

     Syntax
          cp file1 file2

          cp files directory

     Description
          There are two ways to use the cp command.  With the first
          way, file1 is copied to file2.  Under no circumstance can
          file1 and file2 be identical.  With the second way,
          directory is the location of a directory into which one or
          more files are copied.

     See Also
          copy(C), cpio(C), ln(C), mv(C), rm(C), chmod(S)

     Notes
          Special device files can be copied. If the file is a named
          pipe, then the data in the pipe is copied to a regular file.
          Similarly, if the file is a device, then the file is read
          until the end-of-file is reached, and that data is copied to
          a regular file.  It is illegal to copy a directory to a
          file.






























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