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michellepace

01-07-2009 07:04 AM

Forcing verbose automatically every time I use the 'cp' function

Hi there,

Could anyone tell me what is the location/name of the config file(?) such that every time I enter:

% cp this tothat

what is actually called is:

% cp -v this tothat

I remember setting this up years ago, but I've completely forgotten how.
(I'm using mac 10.3.9 with the Debian operating system in the case if anyone is able to answer that specifically)

Thanks in advance,
Michelle

weibullguy

01-07-2009 07:08 AM

Add this to your .bashrc

Code:

alias cp='cp -v'

export cp

michellepace

01-08-2009 01:03 AM

Great, thank-you very much.

Michelle

weibullguy

01-09-2009 08:57 PM

You're welcome very much.

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