On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:12:41 -0800 (PST) "nate" <centos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> took out a #2 pencil and scribbled: Curious question that is directly related to this. This did work on my system; however, I'm not sure if this is something one wants to be doing. If one were to type literally: "cp" -fr somedir somefile ~/ Would this defeat the alias (in bash)? -- ethericalzen@xxxxxxxxx Life is a prison, death is a release _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos