Copy a directory along with its content to another directory in Ubuntu

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To copy a directory or folder to a location in Ubuntu you can use cp command. It will copy the directory along with its content to the target location.

# If directory does not exist in the target location
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cp -r /path/to/directory /path/to/folder

# Copy a directory with a new directory name
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cp -r /path/to/directory /path/to/folder/NEW_DIR_NAME

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