Re: automatic overwrite with cp
Or, alternatively:
yes | cp -apRv source/* /destination/
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Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
clists@perrin.socsci.unc.edu * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, [iso-8859-1] Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> --- alex <radsky@ncia.net> escribió:
> > I've been trying to copy the contents of a partition (source) to
> > another partition (destination) that has a large number
> > of files that need to be overwritten. The command I've tried is:
> >
> > # cp -apRv source/* /destination/
> >
> > The command works but it requires that I manually respond 'yes' for each
> > overwrite. I thought that the r or R option
> > would do an automatic overwrite but apparently it doesn't.
> >
> > What should the option be to do automatic overwrites with the ' cp '
> > command?
> >
>
> add --reply=yes (it's in the man page).
>
> -Roberto
>
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