Wow - I get so frustrated when I try to copy some files over old ones and I get:

[root@server1 wordpress]# cp -Rf * ../public_html/
cp: overwrite `../public_html/license.txt'? y

-R is recursive, but -f is supposed to copy over without confirmation. What could it be?!

Check out your alias command using ‘alias’:

[root@server1 wordpress]# alias
alias cp='cp -i'

Sure enough - alias is set on Redhat Based systems into -i, or interactive mode. Remove this alias with ‘unalias cp’ and it will be removed.

Happy copying!


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Anstar - 04 Jul 08 at 15:22:04

also you can use full path to command:
/bin/cp -Rf * ../public_html/

in this case alias will not work :)

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