On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 10:21:18AM -0400, alex wrote:
I'm trying to copy the contents of one partition to another with:
cp -afv (partition a)/* (partition b)/
Normally, the command works fine except when (partition b) already
contains a large number of directories and files that are duplicates of
those in (partition a) .
The command works but each duplicate requires permission to be
overwritten so it's a tedious process, clicking on 'y' for each
duplicate being copied.
What version of cp are you using? I cannot duplicate this behavior
here. Are you sure you don't have an "-i" set? Are you using /bin/cp
or an alias?
cp (coreutils) 5.0.91 [here]
you might check out "--reply=yes" option (man cp)