Polehn, Mike A wrote:
Using: cp -f -r <dir a> <dir b>For each file being copied it asked: cp: overwrite XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX?
That's not what I observe here (see below). Perhaps there's something else going on, maybe an alias. For example, I couldn't get the cp to work without also using -T. Can you please give an exact recipe for reproducing the problem on your platform?
$ mkdir a b $ echo a >a/f $ echo b >b/f $ cp -f -r -T a b $ cat b/f a
