How can I perform "Make a Copy" using Rclone for Google Drive?

As title, been through the documents, didn't find corresponding command for "Make a Copy" operation.

hello,

not sure what you need, you have not provided much detail about the use-case.

if you want to make a copy of the source, then rclone copy source dest

When click "Make a copy" on the Google Drive web page, a same file with "Copy of" appended as the prefix in the filename is generated on the same folder as the old file.

For example, I have a c.txt file under folder a.
After "Make a copy" operation, a file "Copy of c.txt" will be generated under folder a.

this might help
https://rclone.org/docs/#suffix-suffix

Well, thanks for the advice.
But suffix is just an option, basically it's still copy operation.

The whole point of using "Make a copy" is to change file owner for one file in team drive to me after making a copy.
Because if the file is owned by someone else, I can't copy/move this file.

no worries, we have many gdrive experts and i am sure one will stop by soon.

So let me put it this way.
Before "Make a copy", the file is owned by someone else, so I can't copy or move this file.
The only operation I can do on this file is to "Make a copy".

After making a copy, the filename is changed with a prefix and the ownership of file is changed to me.

So I can copy and move this copied file.

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