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1.1       root        1: .TH CP 1 
                      2: .SH NAME
                      3: cp, mv  \- copy, move files
                      4: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      5: .B cp
                      6: .I file1 file2
                      7: .br
                      8: .B cp
                      9: .I file ... directory
                     10: .PP
                     11: .B mv
                     12: .I file1 file2
                     13: .br
                     14: .B mv
                     15: .I file ... directory
                     16: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     17: In the first form
                     18: .I file1
                     19: is any name and
                     20: .I file2
                     21: is any name except an existing directory.
                     22: In the second form the commands
                     23: copy or move one or more
                     24: .I files
                     25: into a
                     26: .I directory
                     27: under their original file names, as if by a sequence of 
                     28: commands in the first form.
                     29: Thus
                     30: .L "cp f1 f2 dir
                     31: is equivalent to
                     32: .LR "cp f1 dir/f1; cp f2 dir/f2" .
                     33: .PP
                     34: .I Cp
                     35: copies the contents of plain
                     36: .I file1
                     37: to
                     38: .IR file2 .
                     39: The mode and owner of  
                     40: .I file2
                     41: are preserved if it already
                     42: exists; the mode of
                     43: .I file1
                     44: is used otherwise.
                     45: .PP
                     46: .I Mv
                     47: moves
                     48: .I file1
                     49: to
                     50: .IR file2 .
                     51: If the files are in the same directory, 
                     52: .I file1
                     53: is just renamed;
                     54: otherwise
                     55: .I mv
                     56: behaves like
                     57: .I cp
                     58: followed by
                     59: .IR rm .
                     60: .I Mv
                     61: will rename directories,
                     62: but it refuses to move a directory into another directory.
                     63: .SH SOURCE
                     64: .B /sys/src/cmd/cp.c
                     65: .br
                     66: .B /sys/src/cmd/mv.c
                     67: .SH "SEE ALSO"
                     68: .IR cat (1),
                     69: .IR stat (2)
                     70: .SH DIAGNOSTICS
                     71: .I Cp
                     72: and
                     73: .I mv
                     74: refuse to copy or move files onto themselves.

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