I have to create a directory in home directory and copy all files from a file to the newly created directory.

The new directory is australia and the file that needs to be copied is ~/data/spam/australia

so what I did was:

mkdir australia

cp -r ~/data/spam/australia ~/enron-australia

But it doesn't seem like the code was running. It said that the directory called australia was running, so I did rm command for that and tried to make one again, but it says the same thing. The important part however is that I am correct on making the directory and copying all files to the new directory.

This is UNIX!