[lug] cp and rm

[David]

Is anyone having trouble with cp and/or rm under RH7.1(KRUD)?  I have
scripts that have worked forever that now do not.  The problem (with
both rm and cp) appears as though they have been set with xx='xx -i'.
And this state persists despite all the counter measures that I can
think of.  I.e., unalias xx, alias xx=xx, using the -f option, using
the --remove-destination option (cp), etc.  When I am copying hundreds
of files I prefer not to have to answer a prompt for each file 8-)

Also, I just did a df and found that (my bash function) has mounted my
archive directory ten times (presumably I have run the function ten
times, and I have been aborting with C-c); is that normal?  I recall a
"xxxx already mounted" kind of message from the past.

Rednose root ~ df
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5               466668     57695    384878  14% /
/dev/hda6               632444       848    599468   1% /tmp
/dev/hda7               466668     45138    397435  11% /var
/dev/hda9              2925300   1242552   1534152  45% /usr
/dev/hda10              790556    106944    643452  15% /usr/src
/dev/hda11             3162420    326760   2675012  11% /usr/local
/dev/hda12             9875100   1408696   7964776  16% /home
/dev/hdc7               466668     57695    384878  14% /Archive2
/dev/hdc7               466668     57695    384878  14% /Archive2
/dev/hdc7               466668     57695    384878  14% /Archive2
/dev/hdc7               466668     57695    384878  14% /Archive2
/dev/hdc7               466668     57695    384878  14% /Archive2
/dev/hdc7               466668     57695    384878  14% /Archive2
/dev/hdc7               466668     57695    384878  14% /Archive2
/dev/hdc7               466668     57695    384878  14% /Archive2
/dev/hdc7               466668     57695    384878  14% /Archive2
/dev/hdc7               466668     57695    384878  14% /Archive2

dajo

These are the functions that have worked in the past.

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# .bashrc - root configuration file for Bash shell.                          #
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# Hacked-up by dajo                                                          #
# -last-modification-date  "Tue Jul 31 15:40:10 2001"                        #
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source /home/dajo/.bashrc

alias  emacs="/usr/local/bin/emacs -q -l /root/.emacs -g 159x69+130+20 &"

# FVWM2 seems to require this so that it can overwrite initialisation files.
unset noclobber

# Necessary for some operations, e.g., make install for emacs.
PATH=$PATH:/sbin

# Tool.
tarandgzip  ()
    # parameter 1 is the name of the file to be created.
    # parameter 2 is the directory to be processed.
    {
        echo  "starting tarandgzip"
        date
        echo  "tarring $1"
        rm    -f   $1
        tar   -cf  $1  $2
        echo  "gzipping $1"
        gzip       $1
        date
        echo  "completed tarandgzip"
    }

# Archive.
backuphome  ()
    {
        echo "archive commencing"

        mount  /Archive2  

        echo  "copying to Archive2"
        cp  -af  /home/bozo            /Archive2/home/.
        cp  -af  /home/dajo            /Archive2/home/.
        cp  -af  /home/Nepenthes       /Archive2/home/.
        cp  -af  /home/NewSystemFiles  /Archive2/home/.
        cp  -af  /home/Releases        /Archive2/home/.

        tarandgzip  /Archive2/dajotar  /home/dajo
        tarandgzip  /Archive2/neptar   /home/Nepenthes

        umount  /Archive2

        echo  "archive complete"
    }