Copying files from file to another

How do I copy one file from one unix file to another??? I'm new at this, please help..

The UNIX version of this command is cp.

man cp

will show you how to use the command.

cp sourceFile destinationFile

To copy contents into a file into other directory
cp filename pathofdest
ex:cp file1 ./x here ' . ' refers to the current directory i.e x and is copied with the same name
to change the filename
cp file1 ./x/file2
here file1 is copied into x directory into the file2