How to Copy the directory using the GUI interface

The simplest way to copy the directory in Linux is by using the simple copy-and-paste options. Let’s understand this with an example, in this example, we are going to copy a directory into another directory.

Step 1. Go to the path in which you want to copy that specific directory. Here, we want to copy the ‘dir_1’ directory and paste it into the ‘dir_2’ directory.

Step 2. Now select the directory you want to copy. In the example, we are going to select the ‘dir_1’ directory so just right-click, and then click on copy option.

Step 3. Now, as we have already copied the directory it’s time to paste the directory somewhere that is into another directory of course. Just go to another directory where you want to copy the copied directory and its content.

After doing the above step, right-click in the directory and then click on the paste option. We are going to copy ‘dir_1’ and then paste it into the ‘dir_2’ directory.

Step 4. The directory will be successfully copied and pasted.

There is this famous quote for Linux by Jamie Zawinski that goes like this “Linux is only free if your time has no value.” Certainly, that’s true as people start using Linux they have to learn more about it, and when encountering it we have to solve it by ourselves, and that way we learn more about Linux.

In this article, we are going to learn how we can copy the directory in Linux. There are two ways to do this operation:

Let’s look into both of these operations to copy the directory in the Linux.