Your message dated Fri, 01 Nov 2013 15:30:33 -0400 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: Bug#540510: closed by Phillip Susi <[email protected]> (script(1) overwrites output file with no warning) has caused the Debian Bug report #540510, regarding script(1) overwrites output file with no warning to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: bsdutils Version: 2.13.1.1-1 Hi, 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. Please fix this. TIA. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.
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--- Begin Message --------BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > 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? This isn't the unix way of doing things: echo foo > bar echo foo > bar echo foo > baz cp bar baz tar cf foo.tar bar baz tar cf foo.tar bar baz mv bar baz Note the overwrites with no warning. There are many, many other examples. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSdAFZAAoJEJrBOlT6nu75TYMH/inNwrERtO2w2kM6mm2hwZwa 6kchRq/1jKkOYiwO+ns69OzzLDAfpS5refvo56saDEMj6p5MXFWGL9NG1E1Y+iVv f2BMqNIMhH4fDUcQPYBzMTJLFF7j5y7DopbIKaT6LUaRk21gZt2teISPGtoSVJNx Er+nzC1UgBK1IM3fVZY1X8uH/e/zfyovU2GvARQJjUX7z+O+gi/BdrWduaK8ivCs 12Fdz3uqktIXxb5p8NCuIhT5+GFd+hdXIm+ZUArCWf6Myx6NhMAQarDEGa6Zav6T 2C68TwterAkkctA2VhPBE4HfiSXHAbd/Z6IrlLyTgY26hvgFvpojn3cfiyR35eE= =/iVL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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