<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hello wwp, you're right. My cp is an alias to 'cp -i' !!!! I'm despite to have a so beginner problem..... Thanks for help & time BR wwp a écrit : <blockquote cite="mid:20080610165808.2227b60a@free.fr" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hello James, On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:43:48 -0400 James Kosin <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jkosin@beta.intcomgrp.com"><jkosin@beta.intcomgrp.com></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Luc MAIGNAN wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi, I definitively can't force cp to override existing files without > asking confirmation. According to documentation , I try : cp -r --force src/file1 ./ but always a confirmation is asked... What's wrong ? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">'cp -r --reply=yes src/file1 ./' This will work... Check out the man pages for cp or even cp --help </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> I couldn't find any reference to 'reply' in both `cp --help` and `man cp` here (coreutils-6.9-17.fc8). What version is yours? Moreover: $ cp --reply=yes cp: the --reply option is deprecated; use -i or -f instead cp: missing file operand Try `cp --help' for more information. That last advice is still pertinent, James ;-). Now, what cp does Luc have? Regards, </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>