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I have a file called fileArc.c and I was given instructions for an assignment that if I do the command

cp fileArc.c /pc

that this file would then be accessible in a created folder on my desktop. However when I try using the command I get

cp: cannot stat '/pc/fileArc.c': Permission denied

I am not sure what to do to fix this.

gogov
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  • Are you sure the command was exactly cp fileArc.c /pc? Maybe there was ~ or . in front of the slash / character. Please recheck as this would be important – Chris Davies Oct 09 '21 at 21:35

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/pc is not a casual directory on Unix system. Users directories are generally in home user directories (/home/…/), you can also write on /tmp and some others destinations (mounted drives in media…)

Then the first copy should fail if the /pc directory doesn’t exist and you have no right on /. If you are root, the copy will succeed, but if there is no /pc directory, the copy will copy your file renamed /pc : not what you have intended to do.

You can have an idea of the permission of /pc and its content with the command ls -la /pc

Frédéric Loyer
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like said above this is probably permissions of your folder /pc . if it is not created yet, this is about your user permissions, if it is created already, probably the best is to change the folder permissions.

tiago calado
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