Re: Interactivity (-i) and non-interactivity

[Philip Rowlands]

On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

> So how come rm's -f can override -i?

It can't do that always. The standard specifies that the order of the 
options -f and -i are important; the last one wins.

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/rm.html

> And how am I supposed to override the interactivity in cp?

Don't alias "cp" in the first place? Once suggestion earlier in the 
thread is to call /bin/cp directly to avoid the shell alias. Another 
would be defining a separate alias (say, cpi) for the modified 
semantics.

To truly support -f and -i as you wish for cp, a wrapper script could be 
used to preprocess the options and remove -i if -f is seen.


Cheers,
Phil