[CVALE] About the cp command...

[Joshua J. Kugler]

On Saturday 26 May 2007, Gaijin said something like:
>     Hello again,
>
>     I have a question about the cp command.  In trying to write a
> script to set up Linux for sound, I'm trying to use the cp command to
> copy a file from /cdrom to /etc/modules.  In Debian, all the files in
> /etc/modules are appended together to create the /etc/modules.conf
> file.  I may need to overwrite an audio card settings file in getting
> the sound system configured, but I don't have access to the cp man
> page.  I've forgotten the command line switch(es) to overwrite an
> existing file "without question."  I think it was "-q" and/or
> something else.  Could someone remind me what it/they are please? 
> Thank you,

I think you're looking for cp -f.  Did you have access to cp --help.

j

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