How to overwrite multiple files in a directory?

[bash] copy files from one directory into an existing directory?

• In bash I need to do this: 1. take all files in a directory 2. copy them into an existing directory How do I do this? I tried cp -r t1 t2 (both t1 and t2 are existing directories, t1 has files in it) but it created a directory called t1 inside t2, I don't want that, I need the files in t1 to go directly inside t2. How do I do this?

• Answer:

  cp -v t1/* t2