Seems a little crazy but that's the question in a quizz I am taking at one of the tutorials I found in the virtual linuxzoo.net machine I am working with. I have tried so many options like:

[demo@host-7-89 ~]$ls root dir
work letters misc: directories bigfile firstfile yearfile

cd misc
vimrc (file)

The riddle is: copy bigfile from home directory to misc directory and name it big file2

Please help, I have already tried all the options I could think of and now I am stuck.

Any help would be really appreciated and rewarded by the Linux Goddess.

Thanks

no riddle, it is an instruction

cp = copy command
~/ = short for $HOME/ , which is 'short' for /home/<user>/ ,, or whatever is stated in the /etc/passwd file for home dir of the user

/misc/ is your target dir, big\ file2 is target filename
the \ , 'escapes' the space, spaces are 'special'
another way to 'protect' the space would be
but your description is full of holes, I do not believe your ls output

and you may run into permission issues if /misc is not owned by the user


read manuals for cp and ls

man cp
man ls

use the ls to display more 'info' ( details are in the manual )

cp ~/bigfile ~/misc/bigfile2 worked for me

open a terminal and type info cp

Riddle? That's just a basic copy, nothing special about it.

Copy a file from one dir to another dir from a 3rd dir. Just use absolute paths to reference the source and destination and it doesn't matter where "you" are. I would recommend looking up basic filesystem navigation in your search engine of choice to learn more about how you would do this. This operation is actually no different than working on the command line in any other operating system...osx, windows, etc.

Well, I appreciate some of your criticism and ironic comments. I am absolutely positive that it is not too complicated, I just haven't had enough time to do my homework lately and I can very well learn anything on my own, just like everything else. I am out of this "geniuses" forums for good. Have a good life all of you.

apologies for offending you, this was not my intention

however, what you. "described" is very basic,
so basic it will be covered in your study notes

if you do not have time for your homework I can not help you
not sure anyone can/will