I have a file named "blocked.txt" which contains name of 4000 files like below:
1502146676.VdeI4b5c5cbM804631.vps47619.domain.local:2,
1502146676.VdeI4b5c5cdM808282.vps47619.domain.local:2,
1502146677.VdeI4b5c5d3M192892.vps47619.domain.local:2,
1502146677.VdeI4b5c5d7M213070.vps47619.domain.local:2,
1502146677.VdeI4b5c5e5M796312.vps47619.domain.local:2,
1502146678.VdeI4b5c5efM412992.vps47619.domain.local:2,
1502146678.VdeI4b5c5f1M613275.vps47619.domain.local:2,
1502146679.VdeI4b5c5f8M11301.vps47619.domain.local:2,
1502146682.VdeI4b5c66dM115848.vps47619.domain.local:2,S
1502146682.VdeI4b5c676M608733.vps47619.domain.local:2,
1502146685.VdeI4b5c69aM1652.vps47619.domain.local:2,
....
....
i ran below command on shell to copy the files to /tmp/backup directory
for i in `cat blocked.txt`; do cp -f "${i}" /tmp/backup/ ; done
but this gives me error "do you want to overwrite ? y/n" even though i have used -f with cp
Any idea whats wrong in the command ?
You likely have an alias,
or function
that interferes.
To solve this, simply use
command cp
instead of justcp
:Or specify the full path to
cp
: