[CentOS] question on "cp -f" on centos 5.1
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.comMon Jan 28 20:11:52 UTC 2008
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Alex White wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:12:41 -0800 (PST) > "nate" <centos at linuxpowered.net> took out a #2 pencil and scribbled: > > Curious question that is directly related to this. This did work > on my system; however, I'm not sure if this is something one wants > to be doing. If one were to type literally: > > "cp" -fr somedir somefile ~/ > > Would this defeat the alias (in bash)? Any quoting style: \cp "cp" 'cp' should keep the alias from expanding, as does specifying the full path: /bin/cp. But with quoting you sometimes have to be aware of how many times the line will be parsed. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
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