[CentOS] Lame question about cp
James Olin Oden
james.oden at gmail.com
Fri Mar 2 21:32:35 UTC 2007
On 3/2/07, Mário Gamito <gamito at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Jim Perrin wrote:
> > -f should allow you to do this. For root, cp is aliased to cp -i, so
> > you can either set the alias the way you want, or you can do '\cp foo
> > bar' without the ticks, which tells the system to ignore the alias
> > for the command.
> It doesn't work.
> I already tried that before posting.
Try running:
/bin/cp -f $old_file $new_file
Cheers...james
>
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