Why does 'cp -f' not work anymore?

[Chris W. Parker]

Michael Velez <mailto:mikev777 at hotmail.com>
    on Thursday, November 03, 2005 4:19 AM said:

> cp()
> {
> 	[ $((`expr " $*" : '.* -[a-zA-Z]*f[a-zA-Z]* .*'`)) -ne 0 ] ||
> 	[ $((`expr " $*" : '.* --force .*'`)) -ne 0 ] ||
> 	set -- -i ${1+"$@"}
> 	command cp "$@"
> }
> 
> This function checks for --force and -f anywhere on the command line,
> as well as it allows options to be combined with -f, such as -rfv.

Awesome!


Thanks Cameron and Michael.

Chris.