How to force cp to overwrite without confirmation

How to force cp to overwrite without confirmation

Hi,

I am copying files in ubuntu from one directory to another directory. But I want to replace all the files in the destination directory with new files.

How can I use the cp command?

How to force cp to overwrite without confirmation?

Thanks

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October 3, 2018 at 3:54 AM

Hi,

You can pass yes with the command.

Here is example which works:

yes | cp -rf source destination.

This example works well.

Thanks









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