How to copy in bash all directory and files recursive?

Question

I have script:

find ./SourceFolder/ -maxdepth 4 -exec cp -R \'{}\' ./DestFolder/ \\;

SourceDir contains also sub-folders.

Answer 1

code for a simple copy.

cp -r ./SourceFolder ./DestFolder

code for a copy with success result

cp -rv ./SourceFolder ./DestFolder

code for Forcefully if source contains any readonly file it will also copy

cp -rf ./SourceFolder ./DestFolder

for details help

cp --help