ARGH!. I didn't think of checking to see if it was an alias. Thanks! Mike- On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 12:52:28 +0200, you wrote: >Thomas Springer schrieb: >> Am Dienstag, den 19.09.2006, 06:13 -0400 schrieb Michael W Cocke: >>> 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? >> >> When using bash, 'cp' is an alias for 'cp -i'. >> >> Try >> /bin/cp src dest >> >> HTH, >> Thomas >> > >Use '/bin/cp --force' to use circumvent the 'cp -i' alias. > > Karsten -- 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,
