13 дек. 2011 г. · I'm trying to use the cp command and force an overwrite. I have tried cp -rf /foo/* /bar , but I am still prompted to confirm each overwrite.

18 окт. 2015 г. · Use command mv to circumvent the alias and use --force if that doesn't stop mv from bothering you with questions (eg, because of permissions).

18 мар. 2021 г. · I need to copy files from one directory to another without copying any sub-directories. The number and name of sub-directories is dynamic so I cannot exclude ...

5 мая 2010 г. · You can do this by typing alias cp . If it's in that list you can remove it by typing unalias. (The default) -i option will be gone too.

4 окт. 2011 г. · The 'yes' command will echo 'y' (or whatever you ask it to) indefinitely. Use it as: yes | command-that-asks-for-input.

22 февр. 2012 г. · I want to cp a directory but I do not want to overwrite any existing files even it they are older than the copied files. And I want to do it completely ...

16 мая 2014 г. · You can do this using -T option in cp. See Man page for cp. -T, --no-target-directory treat DEST as a normal file.

1 янв. 2019 г. · To only check if the file exists in the target location, but not actually perform any copying you can use the diff command with the -r option.

4 июн. 2009 г. · To expand upon Christian's answer, the only reliable way to do this would be to combine mkdir and cp : mkdir -p /foo/bar && cp myfile "$_".

25 апр. 2009 г. · The correct way is: yes | rm -r trunk But the better command would be to have rm not ask you in the first place with: rm -rf trunk.