How to copy & Paste ?

**lovemylady** · November 28th, 2009

Hey aLL

I would like to know how to copy and paste a folder (as root!)
Why?

Cause I'd like to copy my website into my htdocs (using xampp atm

)

(My folder is called mywebsite)

so

sudo cp mywebsite etc.. doesn't seem to work (operant is missing or so)

would be thanks for any help..

**shaggy999** · November 28th, 2009

I think you need to use the -R flag when copying a folder. so:

Code:

sudo cp -R folder_name destination

**shaggy999** · November 28th, 2009

If you want to do this graphically you need to run nautilus as root using:

Code:

gksudo nautilus

Then just right-click copy, navigate to folder and right-click paste.

**lovemylady** · November 28th, 2009

Thanks worked perfect!
And the point with the graphically thing oh well i do not need it, was nice form you but useless ^^ thanks!

**RJ12** · November 29th, 2009

If this is solved you might want to mark this as "solved"

Go to the first post and click thread tools and click "Mark as solved"

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