Option --force for cp

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Tue Jun 10 21:36:19 UTC 2008


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 ./




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