On Sun, March 4, 2007 04:17, Mário Gamito wrote: > Hi, > >> I have seen a lot of sensible advice, but you reported none worked, which >> is odd. > Nothing worked :( > > Only removing the alias, which is a thing i don't want to do. Hello, I'm new to the list and this thread. I apologize if this has been mentioned before. If you are using bash you can temorarily 'unalias' a command by sticking a \ in front of the command: \cp \ssh \rm \mv It can be a big time saver. Another thing you can do is create a new alias that has saftey features off: alias cpf="/bin/cp -f"; As far as I am aware if you do a cp -p then adding a -f isn't going to work. That is essentially what is happening. If cp sees the -p flag, it is going to prompt as a matter of saftey. I think several other util commands do the same thing. Good luck, -Ryan Simpkins -Ryan