Option --force for cp

[James Kosin]

Luc MAIGNAN wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I definitively can't force cp to override existing files without 
> asking confirmation.
>
> According to documentation , I try :
>
> cp -r --force src/file1 ./
>
> but always a confirmation is asked...
>
>
> What's wrong ?
>
'cp -r --reply=yes src/file1 ./'

This will work...  Check out the man pages for cp or even cp --help


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