Re: cp -f switch doesn't work

Richard Dawe <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.fileutils.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
Hello.

Marc Perkel wrote:
> 
> I have Redhat 7.3 and the cp -f switch doesn't work. It still asks me if
> I want to overwrite existing files.
[snip]

Do you have an alias for 'cp'? What does the 'alias' command show? Is 'cp'
aliased to 'cp -i'? If so, run 'unalias cp' and try again - it should not ask
you this time.

Regards,

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