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Copy

The copy command does what you would (hopefully) expect: it copies a file from one location to another.

cp source_file.txt destination/

You can also copy a directory and all of its contents recursively by adding the -R flag:

cp -R my_dir new_dir

On most Linux systems, the -r and -R flags for cp both mean "recursive." We used lowercase -r with rm earlier and uppercase -R here, but either will work for recursive copy on most distros.

Assignment

Take a look inside the worldbanc/private/transactions/ directory. You should see a few files containing transactions from different years.
Look inside the backups directory inside of transactions. It looks like something is missing!
Copy only the missing file from the transactions directory into the backups directory so there is a backup of all of the transactions.

Don't run it with the recursive option unless you want your browser tab to get stuck in an infinite loop.

Submit the shell checks.