Hi I wanted to know why I am getting this error. I have this directory called mock, which inside has another 3 directories. I am trying to copy all the items from mock directory into the projweek directory using the below code.
cp /mock/* ~/projweek
But I get this error
cp: cannot stat ‘mock/*’: No such file or directory
any ideas as to why that is?
If your source directory is set in quotes, then make sure that the * is outside the quotes, i.e.
cp "source/"* dest
or
cp "source"/* dest
cp is used in unix/linux for copy
cp /mock/* ~/projweek this means copy from /mock folder all files to folder projweek that resides in root
This means cp: cannot stat ‘mock/*’: No such file or directory unable to copy all files from mock folder because file or directory not exists on relevant path
cannot stat = file/dir does not exist. Check the path first.
And, you say you want to copy /mock but the error message says mock. Show the real code first.
When I test in ubuntu, cp (GNU coreutils) 8.28, I have no problem with copying all files under a dir to another dir, when both paths are correct.
root@DESKTOP-9NHNV2I:~# cp /root/temp/* /root
root@DESKTOP-9NHNV2I:~# ls
temp test.txt test2.txt test3333.txt
It's an odd thing about the unix system that glob expansion (aka use of the "*") is done by the shell, and not by the program you are calling, and furthermore, if the glob doesn't match anything, instead of expanding to nothing, it expands to itself and passes that to the program. So the cp command sees literally "/mock/*" which doesn't exist, because you have no file called "*". Somewhat perversely if you had a file called "*" it would dutifully copy it without complaining.
