Question

I have a Folder named “Parser” with in my directory .

I am trying to copy this folder (Parser) from my own directory to my collegues directory under /home/vinay

But i am getting this Exception

cp: cannot create directory `/home/vinay/Parser’: Permission denied

These are the commands i executed .

-bash-3.00$  cp -r Parser /home/vinay/

cp: cannot create directory `/home/vinay/Parser': Permission denied

Answer 1

This is because you have no permission to write vinay’s home folder.

You can do this either as a root user (if you’re in sudoer list), or you can place the file at someplace public (e.g. /tmp) and told vinay to fetch it there.

This is an article about linux file permissions. Hope it helps.