[Linux-disciples] trouble with .bashrc

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 09:14:20AM -0500, James Forrest wrote:
> >alias cp='\cp -i'
> >alias mv='\mv -i'
> >from the command line and then run 'cp' and 'mv', do you get the
> >interactive prompts?
> aha!  good thought.  NO.  these don't work from the command line.

Okay, let's go one step back again, if you do

# touch tmp1
# cp tmp1 tmp2
# cp -i tmp1 tmp2

do you get prompted?

If so, try

alias cpi='cp -i'
alias mvi='mv -i'

and then

# cpi tmp1 tmp2
-- 
Adam Rosi-Kessel
http://adam.rosi-kessel.org
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