overwriting a file

[Marco Aurelio Torino Ribeiro]

Or, you can keep the cp -i and, when you want to skip the prompt by
typing a backslash ("\") before the command. Just like this:

\cp <filename> <destiny>

This works with mv and rm, too.

On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 14:21, Christophe Le Guern wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 11:05:47 -0500
> "Genti A. Hila" <genti_tek4 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi list,
> > When i copy a file to another location and that file exist there already there is a promts that asks for overwriting. How can i skip the prompt
> > 
> > cp /var/named/named.run /var/named/named.save
> > 
> > I tried man cp and tried option  -f ( cp -f   ......) which works fine when I remove a file but still it asks me when i try to overwrite.
> > 
> > How can i force it to be non interactive ? I didn't see any option that allows me to do so.
> 
> Look at ~/.bashrc, there is some alias like cp='cp -i', just comment it out.
> 
> Christophe
> 
> 
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