Re: automatic overwrite with cp

[alex <radsky@ncia.net>]

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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Beautiful!   It works very nicely.    I used      cp  -apfv  --reply=y 
source/* destination.

I wasn't aware that there was such  a command in man.

The story is I installed a new hard drive  for a friend and installed 
Windows 98 and used the old hard drive
Win98 as a source and copied the entire old Win98 partition to the new 
Win98 partition.   I installed KNOPPIX in
the new drive and used it to do the copy.  My friend now is now becoming 
a Debian fan..

Thank you Roberto
has  KNOPPIX  in his new hard drive