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Copy multiple files - confusing error message from cp Archive cp , you give a whole series of source files followed by the name of the target directory. Add the -r option is you want to specify subdirectories to be copied recursively in your input.should work, eh? grahamellis$ cp -r whc.css images grgen.php ~/back_20061229/htaccess -r option wrong? No - that's not the problem. In my opinion, there's a bug in cp in that the usage line is incomplete, but that's not the real problem. The real problem was that I specified an existing file name as the target for my copy, and cp won't copy a whole series of files into one. directory name), it works perfectly:grahamellis$ cp -r whc.css images grgen.php ~/back_20061229 preserve file ownerships as you copy them , use tar instead of cp . You need administrator access (i.e. be logged in as root) to do this.
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