cp -f still prompts - why?

[Jerry Winegarden <jbw duke edu>]

RH 7.0,
	cp -f foo1 foo2		still prompts if I want to overwrite foo2
				if it already exists.

According to the man page, --force  "never prompts"

Same behavior on two different systems.
Why?



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