Copying files using an array

Here is an example of how we can use arrays to operate on files. Let’s suppose the files array contains a list of file names. We want to copy the first file in the list. The following cp call does that:

cp "${files[0]}" ~/Documents

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Bash Scripts Tools

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Using Indexed Arrays

Copying files using an array