As a precaution, I have the following three lines in my .bashrc file.
# SAFETY ALIASES
alias rm="rm -i"
alias mv="mv -i"
alias cp="cp -i"
When I try to move or copy something onto a file that already exists it gives me a warning prompt. So far, so good.
Sometimes, I intentionally want to overwrite a bunch of files. With mv, I just say something to the effect of
to move all the *.dat files from dir1 into the current working directory. Unfortunately cp -f dir1/*.dat . does not work. A trick is to use the command "yes".
So yes | cp -f dir1/*.dat . seems to fix the problem.
# SAFETY ALIASES
alias rm="rm -i"
alias mv="mv -i"
alias cp="cp -i"
When I try to move or copy something onto a file that already exists it gives me a warning prompt. So far, so good.
Sometimes, I intentionally want to overwrite a bunch of files. With mv, I just say something to the effect of
mv -f dir1/*.dat .
to move all the *.dat files from dir1 into the current working directory. Unfortunately cp -f dir1/*.dat . does not work. A trick is to use the command "yes".
So yes | cp -f dir1/*.dat . seems to fix the problem.
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