Copy: A cp to call your own

Take inspiration from the common mocking bird and learn how to develop a light version of cp in Python 3 and safely copy files

Here, we’ll be showing how to implement the cp command line utility in Python 3 – and our Python version will be called pycp. py. All operating systems offer at least one way to copy files and Linux is no exception. To understand how essential the cp command is, you should know that it is located inside /bin, which is available even if you boot your Linux machine in single user mode. Using cp The following output shows various uses of the cp utility: The first command copies the cp executable into the current directory – as you can see, the new file belongs to the current user, whereas the original file belongs to the root user. The last cp command illustrates the use of the -i option of cp.…

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