Re: question on "cp -f" on centos 5.1

[Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 13:22 -0600, Alex White wrote:
> 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)?

[ignacio@localhost ~]$ alias foo=bar
[ignacio@localhost ~]$ foo
bash: bar: command not found
[ignacio@localhost ~]$ "foo"
bash: foo: command not found
[ignacio@localhost ~]$ \foo
bash: foo: command not found

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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet@xxxxxxxxx>

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