Floppy Copy?

[steve anderson]

The ~ key on my IBM keyboard is in the upper left corner under the Esc
key. The ~ represents your home directory?.( e.g. ~/file.txt is same as
/home/user/file.txt).

cp simply copies a file or directory. It does not "erase" or unlink the
original file.

However, the command mv which moves (or renames) a file does unlink the
old name and leaves only the new name. cp leaves original file as is. mv
"erases" original file.

Steve A.