Unix - copy contents of one directory to another

Question

Folder1/
    -fileA.txt
    -fileB.txt
    -fileC.txt

> mkdir Folder2/

> [copy command]

And now Folder2/ looks like:

Folder2/
    -fileA.txt
    -fileB.txt
    -fileC.txt   

How to make this happen? I have tried cp -r Folder1/ Folder2/ but I ended up with:

Folder2/
    Folder1/
        -fileA.txt
        -fileB.txt
        -fileC.txt

Which is close but not exactly what I wanted.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Try this:

cp Folder1/* Folder2/