Copy read-only Unix files

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My teacher created a subdirectory that has a bunch of very lengthy .pl files he wants us to use to test our code on. I usually just xfer any files I need through WinSCP, but I don't have permissions to do that in this case. I think he made his directory private and just created the subdirectory for us to access. I tried to just do cntrl+space to mark the file, then scroll down and cntrl+c into a notepad file.. but cntrl+space is not marking because it's a read-only file.

Thanks for the help, and sorry if this question has an easy fix. I'm new to unix and couldn't find the answer online.

mdegges

Posted 2011-11-14T23:38:17.917

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That's what I thought too, just assumed I was doing something wrong. Thanks for your advice and the link. I didn't know about that site. – None – 2011-11-15T02:44:14.673

Figured it out: cp -R * locationDir – None – 2011-11-15T05:36:43.093

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