On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 06:13 -0400, Michael W Cocke wrote: > 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? > As a normal user, cp does not ask for permission to overwrite. As root cp is actually an alias to "cp -i" and thus it asks for permission to overwrite, delete, etc. If you are running as root and "really" want to overwrite files (and maybe change ownership/permissions as well) then a simple "cp -f" will override the -i and force it to continue. > 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, >
