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RE: [cobalt-developers] CMU Automation

no. cp -f (force) is a Unix shell command not a command within CMU...

What I meant was Can I acess the API for CMU via a shell script?

Jamie

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Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] CMU Automation


At 05:37 PM 7/20/01 +0100, Jamie Rossi wrote:
>This is probably a stupid question, but I have writen a simple shell script
>to automate the backup of files.
>
>How do I add a command to force the acceptance of an over-write when a
>virtual directory backup already exists?

Well, if you're using a simple cp, 'cp --help' says you can use -f, as in
'cp -f source dest'.

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