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Yes is only for affirmative answers , I want a...
Yes is only for affirmative answers , I want a negative answer so that the file being copied is not overwritten.

I used this - yes no|cp A B

is still overwriting file B with A.

If I give...
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Posted By telecomics
yes|cp -i A B would only give me "y" as an...
yes|cp -i A B

would only give me "y" as an answer which means permission to overwrite.

I want to give "n" as an answer to the question since i dont want to overwrite -

cp : do you want to...
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Posted By telecomics
Copy interactively - shell input
Hello,

I am making a script to copy files interactively from one directory to another using the "i" option because I dont want to overwrite the files.

cp -i *.html ./../otherdir/
cp: do...
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Posted By telecomics
Thanks for all your replies . Just to...
Thanks for all your replies .

Just to mention, Ctrl V and then Ctrl M was used to replace the characters in the executed command which changed most of my jar and lib files.

My Sysadmin can...
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Posted By telecomics
Removed ^M from Libraries
I used the following to remove ^M in all files - I guess i did it in haste :mad:

find / -name "*" | xargs perl -p -i -e 's/^M//g' *


It changed all my LIBRABRIES since i used -- perl -p -i...
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Recursive Control M
For each file recursively I used -

find / -name "*" | xargs perl -p -i -e 's/^M//g' *

This will find all files "*" starting from the root and on each file having ^M will perform a cleanup...
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