Did you check the dictionary meaning of clobber? I am happy to use it, but clobber means to abuse physically. Merriam Webster dictionary
Definition of clobber (Entry 2 of 2) transitive verb 1 : to pound mercilessly also : to hit with force clobber a home run 2a : to defeat overwhelmingly b : to have a strongly negative impact on businesses clobbered by the recession c : to criticize harshly clobber does not appear to non-abstractly match overwrite. Ignore my response. I go with the flow Regards Leslie Leslie Satenstein Montréal Québec, Canada On Wednesday, March 11, 2020, 11:39:08 a.m. GMT-4, Kamil Dudka <kdu...@redhat.com> wrote: On Wednesday, March 11, 2020 3:37:06 PM CET Leslie S Satenstein via GNU coreutils General Discussion wrote: > Just saw this message. for --no-clobber, would --no-replace > suffice? the latter could also be shortened to --nr. I am afraid that you are 11 years late to this discussion... --no-replace was proposed originally: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2008-12/msg00157.html --no-clobber and --no-overwrite were suggested by the reviewers: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-01/msg00053.html --no-clobber won in the end: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-01/msg00063.html I do not think that the circumstances have changed so significantly since then to warrant a new option supported in parallel to the existing one. Kamil > Regards > Leslie > Leslie Satenstein > Montréal Québec, Canada > > > > On Wednesday, March 11, 2020, 10:32:19 a.m. GMT-4, Pádraig Brady > <p...@draigbrady.com> wrote: > On 11/03/2020 10:08, Tomas Zubiri wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm attaching a git patch for a small, easy improvement that would > > make cp easier and more pleasant to use and learn. > > > > cp overwrites files by default, this can be disabled by using the > > > > command line option --no-clobber, the proposal is merely to introduce > > an alias called --no-overwrites. > > > > Please let me know if somebody would be willing to merge this in > > principle so we can move address fine details like testing and the > > technical approach used. > > > For convenience, I'm pasting the patch below as well: > While the new name may be clearer > scripts using it would not be compat with older cp implementations. > Hence the incompatability introduced would not be worth it. > > thanks, > Pádraig