[arccanetrain]$ cd 
[~]$ cp -r /project/arccanetrain/intro_to_linux/ .
cp: cannot open 'intro_to_linux/workshop_me.txt' for reading: Permission denied
[~]$ ls
Desktop  Documents  Downloads  intro_to_linux
# Move into the 

Method 02: Move into the /project/arccatrain/

folder

and

copy

from

there

into

your

home.

Remember, the ~ is short for your home folder.

[~]$ cd /project/arccanetrain/
[arccanetrain]$ cp -r intro_to_linux/ ~
cp: cannot open 'intro_to_linux/workshop_me.txt' for reading: Permission denied
[arccanetrain]$ ls ~
Desktop  Documents  Downloads  intro_to_linux
# Why do we see the cp related permission denied?

In both cases you do not have permissions to copy workshop_me.txt - this is intentional and a good remind to check the permissions/ownerships of files.

Question: What do you notice about the permissions of this file?

# -rw-------  1 arcc-t05 arccanetrain      23 Oct  5 07:20  workshop_me.txt
# What happens to this file? It does not get copied

Only the owner of this file (arcc-t05) has permission to read/write, and thus copy this file.

Any other user can not copy this file, and thus it will not be copied as part of everything else.