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copy a directory using bash - how to do it? error: is a directory (not copied).

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cupboy1

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Mar 23, 2014
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Franks-MacBook-Pro:luser-profile1 admin$ ls -l
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 33 admin staff 1122 Mar 23 19:33 HeaderFooterApplication.app
drwxr-xr-x 33 admin staff 1122 Mar 23 19:55 Project1.app
drwxr-xr-x 3 admin staff 102 Mar 23 20:10 Project2.app
Franks-MacBook-Pro:luser-profile1 admin$ cp Project2.app /applications
cp: Project2.app is a directory (not copied).
Franks-MacBook-Pro:luser-profile1 admin$ cp Project2.app /applications/
cp: Project2.app is a directory (not copied).
Franks-MacBook-Pro:luser-profile1 admin$
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What am I doing wrong here?

Looks like this does it:
cp -r Project2.app /Applications

So, nevermind.
 
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