Re: [Hampshire] cp error

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Author: Richard Brown
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] cp error
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 11:58, Lisi <hantslug@???> wrote:
> On my own box, Tux now running Lenny, previously Etch, I have for some time
> backed up (successfully) from the command line with:
>
> # cp -Rpu /home/. /backup


what is the output of

type cp

it may have been aliased to cp -i. If it has you may be able to use -f
to force it to copy.

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Richard Brown