On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 07:12:51PM -0600, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > On Sun, 25 Jul 2004, bruce wrote: > > > a real basic question. how can i copy a file in linux so that i ginore/don't > > respond to the prompt??? > > > > google/help/man pages indicate that cp without the "-i" should work. when i > > use: > > > > cp foo.dat foo1.dat > > i still get the prompt if foo1.dat exists. > > That's because by default, .bashrc will alias 'cp -i' to 'cp' - so > you'd have to undo that before it works the way you want it to. Edit your > .bashrc file and get rid of the alias. Even easier than unaliasing the cp command: /bin/cp foo.dat foo1.dat -- Ed Wilts, RHCE Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
