cp: cannot create directory : No such file or directory

Question

Hi
I am trying to copy a folder from a source to a destination but I am getting the following error:

cp: cannot create directory ‘/home/Workspace/Release/addons/’: No such file or directory 

I entered the following command:

cp -R /home/Workspace/Dev/user1/addons/account /home/Workspace/Release/addons/ 

I tried the same command with different folders and it worked fine.

cp -R /home/Desktop/file_transfer/f1/ff1 /home/Desktop/file_transfer/f2/ 

EDIT :
Q2. When I pass the command in the following code:

import os import re dest = "/home/Workspace/Release/addons/" root = "/home/Workspace/Dev/user1/addons/" f = open("/home/appslab/Desktop/main/FTP/release.conf.text", 'r') for line in f:     filepath = root+line     command = "cp -R "+str(filepath)+"\ "+str(dest)     print(command)     os.system(command) 

I am getting the following error:

~/Desktop/FTP$ sudo python oswalk.py cp -R /home/appslab/Workspace/PythonDevserver/appslab/addons/account  /home/appslab/Workspace/PythonRelease/addons cp: missing destination file operand after ‘/home/appslab/Workspace/PythonDevserver/appslab/addons/account’ Try 'cp --help' for more information. sh: 2: /home/appslab/Workspace/PythonRelease/addons: Permission denied 

The command that I am passing to os.system(), in that the dest is showing up on the next line.
Can anyone tell me what the problem is?
Thank you.
EDIT2:
Permissions for that directory:

drwxrwxr-x 363 user1 user1  16384 Sep 16 21:57 addons 

EDIT3: Fix for Q2 :

command = `str("cp -R ")` + str(filepath)+"\ "+str(dest) 

Answer 1

It is probably because at least one of the directory of your path (/home/Workspace/Release/addons/) does not exist. cp will not create the addons directory (neither its parents of course), so ensure that the path really exists.

To create the path you can do:

mkdir -p /home/Workspace/Release/addons/