Use wildcards:
cp /home/ankur/folder/* /home/ankur/dest
If you don't want to copy all the files, you can use braces to select files:
cp /home/ankur/folder/{file{1,2},xyz,abc} /home/ankur/dest
This will copy file1
, file2
, xyz
, and abc
.
You should read the sections of the bash
man page on Brace Expansion and Pathname Expansion for all the ways you can simplify this.
Another thing you can do is cd /home/ankur/folder
. Then you can type just the filenames rather than the full pathnames, and you can use filename completion by typing Tab.