Why does 'cp -f' not work anymore?

[Richard Bullington-McGuire]

On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Chris W. Parker wrote:

> Anmol Bedi <mailto:anmolbedi at gmail.com>
>    on Friday, October 28, 2005 11:21 AM said:
>
>> Cp command itself is an alias.
>>
>> Give the command alias and you would see that cp = cp -i
>>
>> So its always asking.
>
> Oh, that's what I thought might be happening. I did 'grep -i alias
> *|grep cp' within /etc but it didn't return anything. Where can I find
> the alias definition so I can change it?

Someone else mentioned checking your $HOME/.bashrc (that references 
/etc/bashrc on my system), but if you want the alias to work most of the 
time, a trick for selectively disabling the alias is to enclose the cp 
command in single quotes:

'cp' -f newfile.txt this-has-to-go.txt

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