How to cp files from sources to destination without using alias or non-alias and without getting confirmation/prompts?

Question

$ cp /source/* /destination/ 
cp: overwrite `/destination/file1.conf`

Aim is to copy files from source to destination without getting prompt or using non-alias(/) method.

Solution

Command Without Alias

Any unix command can be prefixed with \ to get the non-alias version.

With Alias

#-(0) :: /dev/shm/test2 > ls
total 0
-rw-------. 1 root 0 Feb 24 16:29 a
-rw-------. 1 root 0 Feb 24 16:29 b
-rw-------. 1 root 0 Feb 24 16:29 c
-rw-------. 1 root 0 Feb 24 16:29 d

Without Alias

#-(0) :: /dev/shm/test2 > \ls
a  b  c  d

Comments

[Dennis Nolte]

it might be that he uses a shell where cp is already alias to cp -i or something like that (similiar to what Aaron answered)