Francis T. O'Donovan

Principal Data Scientist at TriNet – Planet discoverer, researcher, developer, geek.

Nix: Do Not Overwrite Existing Files

March 3, 2017 less than 1 minute read

When using the cp command to copy files, you can use the -n/--no-clobber flag to make sure that you do not overwrite existing files.

Via jbranchaud/til.

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