On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Jan Stary <[email protected]> wrote: > The manpage of cp says > > -f For each existing destination pathname, remove it and create a > new file, without prompting for confirmation, regardless of its > permissions. This option overrides any use of -i. > > -i Write a prompt to the standard error output before copying a file > that would overwrite an existing file. If the response from the > standard input begins with the character `y', the file copy is > attempted. > > but that isnot what cp actually does:
I think all that's missing is the word previous. -f overrides any previous use of -i. A similar statement should be added to the section for -i.
