Command for writing over files?
 

Hello,

I have a large amount of files I need to copy from my home directory to another user's directory.
I know the basics of copying files, however in this case, I need to write over the existing files with the same name.

Using the basic cp command via SSH, it asks me if I wish to overwrite the existing file, which I do - However as I said, I have about 200 files to write over, and I'm wondering if there is a command to simply tell it to write over what is there without prompting me on every file.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.

the oober newbie. ;)

well, you could use cp -f. Depending on your system you might have to do "unalias cp" at the command prompt. This is because there might be an alias that sets cp to "cp -i" witch forces you into interactive mode.

Either way, that should work.

got it!

many thanks.