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? --force doesn't do it, --remove-destination doesn't do it (although from reading the man page I would expect either one to to work) and --reply=yes complains that it's being depreciated. If the answer is "'you can't", can I get a pointer to the source for cp? Thanks! Mike- -- If you're not confused, you're not trying hard enough. -- Please note - Due to the intense volume of spam, we have installed site-wide spam filters at catherders.com. If email from you bounces, try non-HTML, non-encoded, non-attachments,