Cron Automatic File Overwriting

[tabu82]

Good day;
need some more help from you -

need to setup a cronjob for automatic overwriting files in a directory without prompt for overwriting permission.

for example directory A has 3 files in it:

original.txt
1.txt
2.txt

cron should overwrite original.txt for example every 12 hours cp /a/1.txt /a/original.txt

after 12 hours 2.txt should overwrite original.txt

problem is that with cp command - the server ask for overwrite permission - until permission is given the file do not get overwritten.

tx
ray

 

[nobaloney]

Have you tried the -f flag to cp?

Jeff

 

[floyd]

problem is that with cp command - the server ask for overwrite permission - until permission is given the file do not get overwritten.
ray

Not with CentOS. Cron copies without asking for overwrite permission.

 

[tabu82]

thanks you;

indeed ! the cp command with centos - work perfectly fine !

thanks for your kind help !
ray