copy THEN paste FILES in terminal

Question

Is there any package that I can use to copy one (or more) file/folder THEN paste into another directory? I am using Ubuntu, and I have the standard terminal + Terminator.

For example, I am looking for a functionality like:

Folder1$ COPY a.txt
Folder1$ cd ../Folder2
Folder2$ PASTE (a.txt -- optional)

Thank you! I just hate to keep referring to the whole path every time!

Answer 1

This terminal command should work for files:

cp a.txt ../Folder2/a.txt

And for folders:

cp -R myFolder ../Folder2/myFolder

Answer 2

Here's my dumb way to do this, you can add them to your rcfile:

copy(){
    test -z $1 && echo "No file input!" && return
    test ! -e $1 && echo "File not exist!" && return
    export orig_path="$PWD/$1"
    export orig_name="$1"
}
paste(){
    test -z $orig_path && echo "No copied file!" && return
    if [ "$#" -lt 1 ];then
        dist_name="$PWD/$orig_name"
        if [ -d $orig_path ];then
            cp -r $orig_path $dist_name
        else
            cp $orig_path $dist_name
        fi
        echo "$orig_name pasted."
    else
        dist_name="$PWD/$1"
        if [ -d $orig_path ];then
            cp -r $orig_path $dist_name
        else
            cp $orig_path $dist_name
        fi
        echo "\"$1\" pasted."
    fi
}

This doesn't copy any data to the clipboard, since you want to do this only for not referencing folders, and this works for copying folder as well.

Answer 3

Take a look at clipboard-files here: https://github.com/larspontoppidan/clipboard-files

It uses xclip to interface the desktop environment clipboard and provides handy commands like ccopy and cpaste that does exactly what was asked for here. As the desktop environment clipboard is used, the commands interact with the copy/pasting in file managers and other programs that use the clipboard for files. At least it works on Gnome-like desktops.

Full disclosure, I wrote the script after giving up finding something like it out there :)