Simple cp command

[Garrett85]

cold:~$ cp /bin/mv orange ~/fruits
cp: cannot stat `orange': No such file or directory

What am I doing wrong? orange is just the new name for the file, all the directories definitely do exist.

[HROAdmin26]

man cp

DESCRIPTION
       Copy SOURCE to DEST, or multiple SOURCE(s) to DIRECTORY.

cp source source source source ... directory

[sgosnell]

Your syntax is incorrect. Is it /bin/mv/orange you're trying to copy to ~/fruits? If so, it should be "cp /bin/mv/orange ~/fruits". You have a space between /bin/mv and fruits, which means you want to copy /bin/mv somewhere, but are giving incorrect parameters. If you can tell us exactly what you're trying to do, and exactly where the files are, we can give you more exact instructions.

[dinesh23344]

Its unclear what exactly you are trying to do as /bin/mv is another executable and you are trying to run cp and mv both commands simultaniously for moving file from one place to other .
only mv command is need to be used to move the file from one place to other with changing name of that file
eg : mv oldfilename /home/newfile