forcing overwrite with cp in FC5

Tue Sep 19 10:24:37 UTC 2006

Am Dienstag, den 19.09.2006, 06:13 -0400 schrieb Michael W Cocke:
> I know this must have been covered before, but I can't find it...
> 
> How can I get cp to overwrite existing destination files without being
> prompted for every file?

When using bash, 'cp' is an alias for 'cp -i'.

Try
/bin/cp src dest

HTH,
Thomas
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