reopen 540510
thanks
On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 02:54:13PM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> > When you run script -f somefile twice in a row, the file is blithely
> > overwritten and the first set of output is lost. This kind of user data loss
> > is easily preventable by testing if the file exists already and checking
> > with the user to make sure if they really meant to silently overwrite it -
> > chances are they didn't.
>
> This is working as intended.
If you intend for data loss to happen, then I'm afraid you're completely
oblivious to the concept of software and its users.
Seriously now.
% touch foo
% touch foo.gz
% gzip foo
gzip: foo.gz already exists; do you wish to overwrite (y or n)?
You never came across this concept?
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