On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 16:36 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > cp is probably aliased to 'cp -i'. Try using: > 'cp' -rf src/file1 ./ Escaping a command with a backslash, also, avoids aliases. i.e. \cp -- [tim at localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.25.4-30.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.