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When set to false, maintain uid/gid from archive sources instead of changing them to the primary uid/gid of the destination container.
The default is **true**.
+#### **--overwrite**
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+Allow directories to be overwritten with non-directories and vice versa. By default, `podman cp` errors out when attempting to overwrite, for instance, a regular file with a directory. Use this option, if you want to allow this behavior.
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## ALTERNATIVES
Podman has much stronger capabilities than just `podman cp` to achieve copying files between the host and containers.