How to copy files in Terminal as root user

Question

I have 7000 files I would like to copy to a folder from home/Videos to /usr/share/someplace. How do I do this?

Answer 1

If you want to copy all the files in the Videos folder to /usr/share/someplace, run this command:

sudo cp -R ~/Videos/* /usr/share/someplace

Keep in mind that /usr/share/someplace must exist so if you need to create that file before you start, run this command first:

sudo mkdir /usr/share/someplace

If you want to move all those files, you can use the mv command instead of cp.

Answer 2

You can also use -v option so u can see all the files that are copying.As

cp -rv ~/Videos/* /usr/share/someplace

OR 

You can tar the files and copy them as:

tar -cvzf /usr/share/someplace/allfiles.tar.gz ~/Videos/* ....