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No. You shouldn’t write a bash script. Just use the cp command bulk copy feature and provide all files you want to copy and add the path which is the destination. cp file1 file2 file3 /mnt/backup Referece: https://www.poftut.com/linux-cp-or-copy-command/

It depends on how many files you have. Try a cp command and if you get the argument list too long error you'll need to use a different approach -- shell script, rsync.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/217764/argument-list-too-lon...

My go-to would be tar:

`$ tar -C $source-dir -c . | tar -C $dest-dir -x`

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