Cp Command Problems Forcing Overwrite Using Cp Command

today i was trying to copy a many files and when i send this command:

Command:

cp -rf /this/file /to/this/file

i get this prompts:

Command:

cp: overwrite '/this/file /to/this/file' ?

when i look at the man pages for cp it says:



-f, --force


              if an existing destination file cannot be opened, remove it  and


              try again

so it shouldn't ask me, so i found out that de defaults on the dedicated linux server we got from www.webune.com has cp as alias. so if you having this same problem, then run this command to see your alias:

Command:

alias

OUTPUT:

alias cp='cp -i'

alias l.='ls -d .* --color=tty'

alias ll='ls -l --color=tty'

alias ls='ls --color=tty'

alias mv='mv -i'

alias rm='rm -i'

alias which='alias | /usr/bin/which --tty-only --read-alias --show-dot --show-tilde'

as you can see, i do have an alias with cp

so how do you overwrite without prompt?

what i need to do is remove that cp alias witht he unalias command so i send this coommand:

Command:

unalias cp

so now when you do the alias command, you wont see the cp alias anymore

so what happens if your not the admin or dont have access to root, then you can run an unaliased cp command, try

Command:

$ /bin/cp -rf /this/file /to/this/file

hope this helps..

thanks for the guys at www.webune.com for their support on this question

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