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Change the behavior of the copy (cp) command overwrite the existing file without prompt

Edit $HOME/.bashrc, because Red Hat adds alias cp=‘cp -i’.

Thus the -r option has no effect. To fix this, comment out alias cp=‘cp -i’ with #, then log out and log back in. You can now use cp with -f.
Example:
#cp -f /file /existing file

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