-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 CodeHeads wrote: > On 9/19/06, Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 12:24 +0200, Thomas Springer wrote: >>> Am Dienstag, den 19.09.2006, 06:13 -0400 schrieb Michael W Cocke: >>>> I know this must have been covered before, but I can't find it... >>>> >>>> How can I get cp to overwrite existing destination files without >>>> being prompted for every file? >>> >>> When using bash, 'cp' is an alias for 'cp -i'. >>> >>> Try /bin/cp src dest >>> >>Or: \cp src dest > > > This would work too: cp -f Not when cp is aliased to cp -i: # id uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),1(bin),2(daemon),3(sys),4(adm),6(disk),10(wheel) # touch test1 test2 # cp -f test1 test2 cp: overwrite `test2'? n - -- Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp ====================================================================== Human war has been the most successful of all our cultural traditions. -- Robert Ardrey -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iQFDBAEBAgAtBQJFEJHBJhhodHRwOi8vd3d3LnBvYm94LmNvbS9+dG16L3BncC90 bXouYXNjAAoJEEMlk4u+rwzj2lgH/0xanu1KpumrLEdIfqrEiWx+n5wPWTu2mt0i 8g/nIXptRvRrN4mHy6NYgUfyBsNF9zYvYZWw7fFw3tjruAMT1BbPrA/+iI1/QsBq 25WiQmkvcnbusxv7i9nGw6lqZGZ5impbsvdxvx3xPmKQ30xgl7S5a91VSc78sj5t VDwBWsWfOEtbN7Uvp7sgQ3SRKhR/z0NQqgsfoj+vmegwxVECN3kRjMbjHKEeYWlf eEWqPxozUsKMQ/ZwjsD/H4FiYjOb675YO21e+7fagv5hGdEUEO/0Tm5x7eCxIObw YhTBwD0JlCMm1R1st5gd52bKqKPTSDpEmXw2TiHznS2oogZMc7E= =hdcW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list