Hello again,

Is there an option for the cp command to overwrite existing files in the destination directory?

Cheers

Rob

cp will automatically overwrite an existing file with the same name unless you use -i (interactive)

if you do have an alias set up for cp (i.e. alias cp "cp -i" )
and do not want to chage the alias

try put "\" before cp
i.e
$ \cp FileName newFileName
this will skip all interactive questions.
Hope this help

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:rolleyes:

to overwrite exsiting file give
cp filename1 filename2
in this case filename2 will be overwritten with the contents of filename1.