Forceful copy

andy18 · 11-05-2002, 12:52 PM

Hello,

I am working on SSH and was trying to copy some files from my other folder to one folder.

I type the following command :

cp -Rf /home/.... /home/abc/123

But it still keep prompting to ask my confirmation on whether to overwrite the files on /123 directory.I wish to directly overwrite the files without any confirmation.

Can some one tell me the command to do so?

Thanks.

Andy

finegan · 11-05-2002, 03:31 PM

cp -r will get rid of the -i that's in there, or you can just take a look at your /etc/profile script, or .bash_profile, .profile, or .basrc you've got that has cp aliased to cp -i

cp -r can get nasty though, it follows symbolic links in stupid ways and can hang a machine if there's something still writing to a file say... there's an uber-cool option to cp now if this is a backup, try a simple:

cp -a