forcing overwrite with cp in FC5

[Chris Norman]

Is it not -q?

HTH.

Chris Norman
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael W Cocke" <cocke at catherders.com>
To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 11:13 AM
Subject: forcing overwrite with cp in FC5


>I know this must have been covered before, but I can't find it...
> 
> How can I get cp to overwrite existing destination files without being
> prompted for every file?  --force doesn't do it, --remove-destination
> doesn't do it (although from reading the man page I would expect
> either one to to work) and --reply=yes complains that it's being
> depreciated.
> 
> If the answer is "'you can't", can I get a pointer to the source for
> cp?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Mike-
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