Option --force for cp

Kevin Martin kevintm at ameritech.net
Wed Jun 11 13:34:46 UTC 2008



Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 16:36 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 16:24:52 +0200,
>>   Luc MAIGNAN <luc.maignan at winxpert.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> 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 ?
>>>       
>> cp is probably aliased to 'cp -i'. Try using:
>> 'cp' -rf src/file1 ./
>>
>>     
> Actually executing:
> /cp -r --force src/file1 ./
>
> will remove the alias from the execution. Notice the leading '\'
> character.
>
>
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>   

Or just run /bin/cp -r --force src/file1 .          thereby forcing the 
use of the executable and not the alias.  I don't understand the use of 
the / at the front of the command unless cp lives under the / directory.

Kevin
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