Method 2 continued You can do it also by specifying the full path. Say you home directory is then you would do it the ‘/nfs/see/username/’ following way: /nfs/see/username/data1 ‘cp /nfs/see/username/research/documents’ You can obtain the full path to the directory you are currently in by typing and hitting return. If you are in the home ‘pwd’ directory then type and it will return something like: ‘pwd’ prompt$ pwd /nfs/see/username The path varies depending on what computer you are on and what username you are and you are in your directories. You can type from anywhere. ‘pwd’ Task time [ Task 5 Go into the documents directory and type pwd. Is it what you expected? Are the longer?
Method 2 continued You can do it also by specifying the full path. Say you home directory is ‘/nfs/see/username/’ then you would do it the following way: ‘cp /nfs/see/username/data1 /nfs/see/username/research/documents’ You can obtain the full path to the directory you are currently in by typing ‘pwd’ and hitting return. If you are in the home directory then type ‘pwd’ and it will return something like: prompt$ pwd /nfs/see/username The path varies depending on what computer you are on and what username you are and you are in your directories. You can type ‘pwd’ from anywhere. Task time [ Task 5 Go into the documents directory and type pwd. Is it what you expected? Are the longer?
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