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Development Tools Introduction to the Terminal Common Commands Working with Files

Pui Lun Christin C Hebron
Pui Lun Christin C Hebron
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Fill in the blanks to complete a command to copy the tickets directory and all its contents to a new tickets_backup dire

Fill in the blanks to complete a command to copy the tickets directory and all its contents to a new tickets_backup directory.

My answer was cp tickets mkdir tickets_backup, but was wrong. Help?

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KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
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KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
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This was shown @ 2:08 in the previous video

You will want to use the -r (recursive) option with cp

treehouse:~/workspace$ cp -r tickets/ tickets_backup