Subject: Re: bug#18681: The Linux cp command has bugs

From: Jon Stanley <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 20:38:06 -0400

On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 7:48 PM, Norihiro Tanaka <[email-masked]> wrote:
> If you temporarily want to cancel the the alias, you can define an another
> alias as `cpf', and/or can use below instead of `cp'

Note that (in bash at least) you can prefix the command with a
backslash (\) to override an alias for that invocation, and is what I
typically do:

$ \cp <blah>