[docutils:feature-requests] #36 prevent accidential file overwrites by wildcard expansion
"Günter Milde" via Docutils-develop <[email protected]>
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- **summary**: option for disallowing file overwrites --> prevent accidential file overwrites by wildcard expansion - **status**: pending --> open-accepted - **Group**: --> Default - **Comment**: The upcoming change to the command line API is now announced in the RELEASE-NOTES. --- ** [feature-requests:#36] prevent accidential file overwrites by wildcard expansion** **Status:** open-accepted **Group:** Default **Created:** Fri Mar 15, 2013 10:43 PM UTC by Jakub Wilk **Last Updated:** Fri Dec 02, 2022 01:07 AM UTC **Owner:** nobody A Debian user complained that if you use a wildcard as input file name, and the wildcard unexpectedly expands to two names, then rst2html will overwrite your files: http://bugs.debian.org/654690 Would if be possible to add an option for not overwriting output files, that you could add to your configuration file, and later override from command line if needed? --- Sent from sourceforge.net because [email protected] is subscribed to https://sourceforge.net/p/docutils/feature-requests/ To unsubscribe from further messages, a project admin can change settings at https://sourceforge.net/p/docutils/admin/feature-requests/options. Or, if this is a mailing list, you can unsubscribe from the mailing list.