Question

To copy multiple files, the last destination file should be a directory.

(a) False

(b) True

This question was posed to me in an interview for internship.

This interesting question is from Copying a File: cp Command in chapter Handling Ordinary Files of Unix

Answer 1

Right answer is (b) True

The explanation: We can copy multiple files using a single invocation of cp command. To do so, the last name specified should be a directory. For example,  cp file1  file2  file3  dir_one. It will copy all the three files to the directory named dir_one.