Bug 65528 - cp -f option is not work.
Summary: cp -f option is not work.
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: fileutils
Version: 7.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: wdovlrrw
QA Contact: Aaron Brown
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-05-27 01:27 UTC by antihong
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:42 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-05-28 11:13:11 UTC
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Description antihong 2002-05-27 01:27:53 UTC 
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Description of problem:
When I use -f option included at cp,
the -f option is not work.  

# cp -f test_file test_dir/
cp: overwrite `test_dir/test_file'? y



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How reproducible:
Couldn't Reproduce

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Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2002-05-28 11:22:13 UTC 
You are almost certainly aliasing cp to cp -i somewhere in your startup files 
(~/.bashrc, probably). 
-f doesn't and isn't supposed to override -i anymore (POSIX compliance).
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