On Monday 12 March 2007 03:28, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> by default, coreutils cp will overwrite a file. Hence I put in
>
> alias cp='/bin/cp -i'
>
> into the system-wide profile. However, users wishing to override the
> now-system-default of interactivity cannot do so
[snip]
They can do so, by using the full path name of the command.
On my system,
/bin/cp fileA fileB
does what you want.
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