UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Hi,

I am performing unit testing in an unix environment. i have read access to all the files in this environment, but i can't copy any files from my home directory to test environment. Is there any way i can override files in testing environment.

What is the command to override a file in testing environment. I have once seen one of colleague using override$ jil -load jilname to override a jil in a directory in which he doesn't have permissions.

I greatly appreciate your help.

Thank you
Surendra

What Unix O/S is it?

Speaking generically if you don't have the access rights to write to a directory then you can't. You can use the command 'sudo' (see man pages) to temporarily become superuser bypassing security if the system administrator has granted you access to that command.

"jil" looks like a Java command meaning "Java Intermediate Language". Are you operating a Java environment?