Re: [CentOS] question on "cp -f" on centos 5.1

Jerry Geis wrote:

When I issue the command cp -af --reply=yes * ../other it tells me --reply is deprecated and use -i or -f.

when I remove the --reply=yes I have to indicate 'y' to every file being copied.

I just want to copy every file in my current directory to another directory and overwrite any file that is there.

What is the correct way to do that?

Use -f as the you got as the error message.

[angenenr@shutdown test]$mkdir a b [angenenr@shutdown test]$touch a/foo a/bla [angenenr@shutdown test]$touch b/foo b/bla [angenenr@shutdown test]$cp -f a/foo a/bla b/ [angenenr@shutdown test]$

Cheers,

Ralph