On 01Nov2005 14:43, Richard Bullington-McGuire <rbulling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | Someone else mentioned checking your $HOME/.bashrc (that references | /etc/bashrc on my system), but if you want the alias to work most of the | time, a trick for selectively disabling the alias is to enclose the cp | command in single quotes: | | 'cp' -f newfile.txt this-has-to-go.txt Even easier is to quote just one character instead of the whole word: \cp -f newfile.txt this-has-to-go.txt Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ The ZZR-1100 is not the bike for me, but the day they invent "nerf" roads and ban radars I'll be the first in line......AMCN -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list