Kubo adding files to IPFS

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This is with reference to cli to add project to ipfs network ,

ipfs files cp /ipfs/$(ipfs add -r -Q <local-folder>) "/<dest-name>"

I am in project root dir and am unable to figure out what destination or taget location,
As per my understanding ipfs add is hash generated for the content which can be used to publish to IPNS,

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The destination path is MFS & MFS stands for Mutable File System in IPFS. so it will start /

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The target destination is the MFS root /. MFS gives you a mutable filesystem API for convenience, however, it isn’t a filesystem path of your OS.

See File systems | IPFS Docs for more info

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