On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 08:20:49PM +0200, alex wrote: > 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. Use the -f option. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]