It's not as simple as that because there can be only one parent directory but many child directories.
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It's not as simple as that because there can be only one parent directory but many child directories.
Well it's not the cp command so much as bash and the directory structure.
Try
http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide
Try the command above
From what I can tell your viirus directory is 2 levels up in the tree, so
cp palm*.pdf ../../viirus
The attachment is difficult to read but it doesn't look like thr subdirectories you are trying to move your files into exist.