Reputation: 16495
When moving / copying contents from one folder to another. I get asked if I want to overwrite files sharing identical names. As in this example:
[root@public/]# sudo mv * /var/www/public/html/
For example, if public
has 100 files that exist in html
it will ask if I want to overwrite each file by name 100 time. Is there a way to append the y
command?
I am a linux newbie. I know we can STDIN, STDOUT and STDERR. I though I could append it doing something like < "echo y";
but it ain't working.
Upvotes: 1
Views: 66
Reputation: 158090
Basically you can use the program yes
for such purposes:
yes | mv ...
yes
called without any arguments repeats the string "y" forever but if you pass an argument it will ouput the argument. This leads to the nice call
yes no | program
which can be used to repeatedly say "no" :)
However, in this case mv
itself has the option -f
wich would suppress questions and enforce actions. But I would use it with care as questions are meant to help you prevent data loss.
Upvotes: 3
Reputation: 2923
Your solution seems to just be a work around. You should use mv -f
to disable the prompt.
Upvotes: 1