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by goialoq 3068 days ago
noclobber

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clobbering

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Maybe this is just me but when I enable that king of options I end up getting the automatism of bypassing them (like typing rm -f everytime if rm has been aliased to rm -i).

I prefer having a way of reverting changes rather than something that gets in the way.