Re: cp -f still prompts - why?

[teg redhat com (Trond Eivind Glomsrød)]

Jerry Winegarden <jbw duke edu> writes:

> 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?

Because "cp" is aliased to "cp -i", so you're effectively running

cp -i -f foo1 foo2

To get rid of the annoying messages for rm, cp and mv,  just remove the aliases from root's .bashrc

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Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.