On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 at 8:32pm, Mário Gamito wrote > 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. Don't log in as root directly -- use sudo instead. That will avoid the alias altogether. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University