How can files be copied from a USB drive to the system in Linux?

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In a Linux system, you can use the command line tool cp to copy files from a USB drive to the system. Here are the specific steps:

Insert the USB drive into the computer and wait for the system to automatically mount the USB drive.
Open the terminal and use the lsblk command to check the mounting point of the USB drive. Typically, the USB drive will be mounted in a subdirectory within the /media directory.
Copy the files from the USB drive to the system using the cp command, for example:

cp /media/usb_drive/file.txt /home/username/

The file path /media/usb_drive/file.txt is from the USB drive, and /home/username is the destination path for copying.

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Please note that copying files to the system requires the corresponding permissions, so you may need to use the “sudo” command to elevate the permissions.