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 >