Comments on: How to Force cp Command to Overwrite Without Confirmation in Linux

By: Craig

Craig — Sun, 08 May 2022 05:13:37 +0000

In reply to Anees. It prevents expansion of aliases and thus causes the lookup to fall back to /usr/bin/cp.

martin0641 — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 05:46:24 +0000

Or you can type /bin/cp and not have to mess with aliases so they are there if and when you prefer them.

Anees — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 11:52:30 +0000

What is the relevance of \? Could you pls elaborate?

Aaron Kili — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 06:51:18 +0000

In reply to otheus.

@jb

Great, thanks for sharing with us.

Aaron Kili — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 06:50:37 +0000

In reply to jb.

@jb

This doesn’t work when the alias is set. Try it out.