overwriting a file

[Christophe Le Guern]

On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 11:05:47 -0500
"Genti A. Hila" <genti_tek4 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi list,
> When i copy a file to another location and that file exist there already there is a promts that asks for overwriting. How can i skip the prompt
> 
> cp /var/named/named.run /var/named/named.save
> 
> I tried man cp and tried option  -f ( cp -f   ......) which works fine when I remove a file but still it asks me when i try to overwrite.
> 
> How can i force it to be non interactive ? I didn't see any option that allows me to do so.

Look at ~/.bashrc, there is some alias like cp='cp -i', just comment it out.

Christophe