Moving and Copying Directories

You can move and copy entire directories using commands you already know!

This will rename the first directory to "collegeFiles2003", again deleting the destination directory if it already exists, so be careful.

The copy command syntax is a little different.

So what does this '-r' do? It is actually necessary if you want to copy a directory. It specifically tells the "cp" command that you want to copy all subdirectories. Lets say "march_project" had 5 directories within it, the '-r' means "recursively" copy the whole directory.

So lets learn how to delete all these files we've been creating!