Author: Lisi Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] cp error
On Thursday 19 June 2008 12:22:00 Richard Brown wrote: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:15, Lisi <hantslug@???> wrote:
> > Thanks, Richard. You got it in one!! That is indeed the difference
> > between Lenny and PCLOS.
> >
> > Would it be better to use -f, or to undo the alias? I.e. is -f "safe" in
> > other ways?
>
> I think I'd personally either remove the alias whever the distro is
> setting it, or add unalias cp in my bashrc, depending on how the
> distro handles changes to config files.
I'll do some reading up. Thanks very much for the help.