Re: automatic overwrite with cp

[alex <radsky@ncia.net>]

Thanks for the other suggestions.   I had already started the copy so I 
didn't receive the last few messages until
the copy was completed but will note them in my handydandy notebook
.

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.  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?