On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, 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?
You must be running as 'root'. The problem is that FC has a default alias
for root set on cp that maps it to 'cp -i' (which causes it to ask you for
permission before overwritting a file). Before you start, type 'unalias
cp':
[root@localhost /]# unalias cp
[root@localhost /]# cp /home/deep /home/deepak
But that is still probably not doing what you think it is doing and will
generate a "cp: omitting directory '/home/deep'" error because you have
not specified the '-a' flag to recursively copy in archive mode.
Better would be to use rsync to recursively copy one tree to the other in
archive mode:
[root@localhost /]# rsync -a /home/deep/ /home/deepak/
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