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 > >
