Re: Interactivity (-i) and non-interactivity

[Peter D.]

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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Peter D.