cp command

[Jeff Vian]

On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 07:28 -0500, Mike Klinke wrote:
> 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
> --------------------
> 
an even easier 2 approaches.
  cp -f  will override the -i and do the copy without prompting for
confirmation
  \cp  will use the default cp command and NOT use the alias.

Either approach will bypass the prompts the OP was getting.


> or use the "--reply" parameter as others have suggested.
> 
> 
> Regards, Mike Klinke
>   
>