cp command

Mike Klinke lsomike at futzin.com
Tue Jul 18 12:28:06 UTC 2006


On Tuesday 18 July 2006 00:29, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> Hi ALL
>
> if i will run following command
>
> cp /home/deep /home/deepak
>
> if deep folder have same 100 files which is under /home/deepak it
> will ask permission for overwrite
>
> i have to enter y 100 times. how can i forcefully over write the
> files?
>

I gather you're doing this logged in as root? If so, this is due to 
an alias for the 'cp' command.  If you type:

---------
#which cp
---------

you can see that it defaults to using the "-i" parameter as it will 
display this:

----------------
alias cp='cp -i'
        /bin/cp
----------------

If you don't want that to happen ( the aliasing ) you can specify 
the full path to the 'cp' command; i.e.

--------------------
#/bin/cp file1 file2
--------------------

or use the "--reply" parameter as others have suggested.


Regards, Mike Klinke
  




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