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I want to copy folders from one folder to another.
In the "cp" man page, I read this


I could not find a way to get a warning before over-writing folders like in the case of copying files where "-i" can be used and then "y" or "n" can be specified.
This is because according to the man page " " which means that "-R" over-writes the "-i" option.
Please help.

'cp -iR' will still prompt you before every overwrite. Additionally, you might be interested in '-u', as it only overwrites files if the timestamp on the replacing file is newer.

Thanks for the prompt reply.
The man page says:
What kind of errors ? If i am copying three files and two get copied and one does not get copied due to error, will such error be suppressed? I don't know how I can test this. So i hope you know the answer.
I have no reasons to suppress any kind of errors. I would actually want to see the errors.

I'm just guessing here, but i think they mean that even if a file cannot be copied (like permission denied error) it will continue to copy the rest of the files unlike regular copy which will stop if 1 error is encountered?

Best regards
Fredrik Eriksson

Thanks, I will use the command. Let's see what happens!