Auto-confirm overwrite questions?

ifm · 06-09-2002, 04:05 PM

On my YDL2.1 server, whenever I am in through ssh and su'd in... when I do cp actions from one dir to another dir, it never asks me for confirmation.

However my new RH7.3 server does. Drives me insane, because I like to do batch copy/paste of cp commands (which I have written in a text file on my machine). However with the confirmation in between, it kills the rest of the paste, waiting for me to type a "y".

Where can I turn this off? Thanks in advance for any answers.

NSKL · 06-09-2002, 04:46 PM

Use the -f flag for force (I think). Anywayz, man cp should help you, and you probably have a alias made in some of your configuration files that make cp ask to confirmation every time. Check .bashrc or .profile and make sure theres no alias cp cp -something line in those files...
Hope that helps
-NSKL

ifm · 06-09-2002, 05:09 PM

Found a .bashrc file in the /root directory that had the evil aliases for a whole bunch of commands setting them all to ASK for confirmations. Non existed in my actual user I was logging in with and su'ing with... but the root user had them.

Ok, thanks! Works now when I commented those out via vi.

vfs · 06-10-2002, 06:32 AM

It may not be useful in your case, but sometimes you can confirm programs that read your input with a pipe:

echo y | myprogram

HTH

vfs

acid_kewpie · 06-10-2002, 06:40 AM

well a more complete solution is to just plain use "yes"

yes | my program

btw. yes is also a superb program for flooding chatrooms. not that i'd know of course