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Central Processor

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Código Penal

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Close Proximity

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Cerebral Palsy

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Communist Party

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Commercial Paper

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Control Program

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Crude Protein

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Chest Pain

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Chronic Pain

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Cell Phone

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Conservative Party

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Color Printer

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Canadian Pacific Railway

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Command Post

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Commercial Property

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Credit Points

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Cathodic Protection

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Cours Préparatoire

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Construction Permit

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Corporal Punishment

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Child Pornography

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Coulomb Potential

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Creatine Phosphate

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Process Capability

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What does CP mean?

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cp is a UNIX command for copying files and directories. The command has three principal modes of operation, expressed by the types of arguments presented to the program for copying a file to another file, one or more files to a directory, or for copying entire directories to another directory. The utility further accepts various command line option flags to detail the operations performed. The two major specifications are POSIX cp and GNU cp. GNU cp has many additional options over the POSIX version.

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