Cp (Unix)

cp
Original author(s)AT&T Bell Laboratories
Developer(s)Various open-source and commercial developers
Initial releaseNovember 3, 1971 (1971-11-03)
Written inPlan 9: C
Operating systemUnix, Unix-like, Plan 9, Inferno, KolibriOS
PlatformCross-platform
TypeCommand
Licensecoreutils: GPLv3
Plan 9: MIT License

In computing, cp is a command in various Unix and Unix-like operating systems for copying files and directories. The command has three principal modes of operation, expressed by the types of arguments presented to the program for copying a file to another file, one or more files to a directory, or for copying entire directories to another directory.[1]

The utility further accepts various command line option flags to detail the operations performed. The two major specifications are POSIX cp and GNU cp. GNU cp has many additional options over the POSIX version.[2]

The command is also available in the EFI shell.[3]

  1. ^ "Cp(1) - Linux manual page".
  2. ^ "GNU Coreutils: cp invocation". GNU.
  3. ^ "EFI Shells and Scripting". Intel. Retrieved 2013-09-25.

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