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Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 08:29:32 -0500
From: JT Williams <jeffw AT darwin DOT sfbr DOT org>
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Subject: Re: cp -if
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-: : "* cp's -f option no longer cancels the effect of --interactive (-i) (per
-: : POSIX)"
-: 
-: Ouch. So how do we override "-i"?

Ouch, indeed.  And why only cp?  mv -i can still be overridden.
I've reverted to fileutils 4.0.