Why does 'cp -f' not work anymore?

[Cameron Simpson]

On 01Nov2005 14:43, Richard Bullington-McGuire <rbulling at pkrinternet.com> wrote:
| 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

Even easier is to quote just one character instead of the whole word:

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

Cheers,
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