cp command
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Tue Jul 18 12:49:38 UTC 2006
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
>
>
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