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Assuming I'm not in my home directory, I want to copy all the files starting with "a" from my home directory to my current directory.

I've tried cp ~ a* . and different variations of that but it hasn't worked at all. Thank you.

Edit: *Thank you again

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    Super-fast answers you've received! Oct 15, 2011 at 19:22

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This should do the trick:

cp -r ~/a* <path-to-end-directory>

Your current directory is ., the directory above you is .. .

So the exact command you'd want is cp -r ~/a* .

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cp ~/a* . should work.

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The solution would be cp ~/a* .

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