Permissions have two parts: an action and a set of users. The three actions—read, write, and execute—define what can be done to a file, while the user sets define who can do it.

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The -v flag is pretty common for Linux commands. It enables verbose mode, which is useful to see what happens in the background when you run a command. For the cp command specifically, the -v flag ...