Why does 'cp -f' not work anymore?

Chris W. Parker cparker at swatgear.com
Fri Oct 28 18:27:26 UTC 2005


Anmol Bedi <mailto:anmolbedi at gmail.com>
    on Friday, October 28, 2005 11:21 AM said:

> Cp command itself is an alias.
> 
> Give the command alias and you would see that cp = cp -i
> 
> So its always asking.

Oh, that's what I thought might be happening. I did 'grep -i alias
*|grep cp' within /etc but it didn't return anything. Where can I find
the alias definition so I can change it?


Thanks,
Chris.




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