How to let ‘cp’ command don’t fire an error when source file does not exist?

If you’re talking about the error message, you can suppress that by sending it to the bit bucket:

cp ./src/*/*.h ./aaa 2>/dev/null

If you want to suppress the exit code and the error message:

cp ./src/*/*.h ./aaa 2>/dev/null || :

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