In essence, copying a file on Linux is really simple: use the cp command, followed by the filename-to-be-copied to the filename-to-copy-to. It looks something like this:
reader@ubuntu:~$ ls -ltotal 12-rw-rw-r-- 1 reader reader 69 Jul 14 13:18 nanofile.txtdrwxrwxr-x 2 reader reader 4096 Aug 4 16:16 testdir-rwxr-xr-- 1 reader reader 0 Aug 4 13:44 testfiledrwxrwx--- 2 reader reader 4096 Aug 4 16:18 umaskdir-rw-rw---- 1 reader games 0 Aug 4 16:18 umaskfilereader@ubuntu:~$ cp testfile testfilecopyreader@ubuntu:~$ ls -ltotal 12-rw-rw-r-- 1 reader reader 69 Jul 14 13:18 nanofile.txtdrwxrwxr-x 2 reader reader 4096 Aug 4 16:16 testdir-rwxr-xr-- 1 reader reader 0 Aug 4 13:44 testfile-rwxr-xr-- 1 reader reader 0 Aug 18 14:00 testfilecopydrwxrwx--- ...
