Bash Manipulation: Copy and Move Drill

This lesson reinforces a production-safe sequence: copy first, verify, then move or rename to final state. It reduces risk during refactors and incident remediation.

cp report.txt backup.txt
mv backup.txt archive.txt

Both commands usually complete silently on success. Confirm with:

ls

You should see report.txt and archive.txt (with backup.txt removed after move).

Copy-before-move protects source material while you validate downstream steps. This is especially valuable in release prep and log curation pipelines.

• Moving directly without creating a recovery copy.
• Mixing source and destination order.
• Forgetting to inspect resulting filenames.

Try the full loop:

cp runbook.md runbook.bak
mv runbook.bak runbook-archive.md
ls

Repeat until source/destination ordering becomes instant and error-free.