Copying files from one sub directory to another

Question

I think I must be missing something obvious. I am in a directory called AmHist, with 2 subdirectories, Assign and Resources. I want to move 2 files from Assign to Resources.

I try

cp LinuxHist Linuxnotes.txt Resources

but for both files I get No such file or directory. If I do

cp Assign/LinuxHist Linuxnotes.txt Resources

it only copies LinuxHist and I get the error again for Linuxnotes.txt on how it doesn't exist. I am very new to linux, so am I missing something basic about relative and absolute paths? I know the basics of Windows command line, so it's not completely alien, but I think I must be missing something big

Answer 1

You need to specify the directory name for both source files:

cp Assign/LinuxHist Assign/Linuxnotes.txt Resources

(There are many more ways of writing this, but this is the simplest form of the command to understand).

Now your title has "Copy" but the question says "move". The cp command will copy. If, instead you want to move the file then use the mv command:

mv Assign/LinuxHist Assign/Linuxnotes.txt Resources

Answer 2

You can go to first your source directory i.e assign by using cd command. After that, you can use this:

mv LinuxHist Linuxnotes.txt ../Resources

This will definitely work.