overwriting a file -thanx i got it working

Genti A. Hila genti_tek4 at hotmail.com
Mon Dec 8 16:31:47 UTC 2003


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christophe Le Guern" <christophe at le-guern.net>
To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 11:21 AM
Subject: Re: overwriting a file


> 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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