[Docutils-develop] [docutils:feature-requests] #36 option for disallowing file overwrites

[Günter M. <mi...@us...>]

Proposal:

       - <toolname> [options] [<source> [<destination>]] 
       + <toolname> [options] source [source2 [source3 [...]]]

Announce upcoming  changes in Docutils 0.19
   
  * new option ``--output=destination`` in Docutils 0.19
  
  * removal of the short options ``-i`` and ``-o`` in Docutils 1.0
  
  * removal of the second argument `<destination>` in Docutils 2.0

  * accept more than one source document in Docutils 3.0
  
  * short option ``-o`` for ``--output`` in Docutils 3.0     



Attachments:

- [propose-usage-pattern-change.patch](https://sourceforge.net/p/docutils/feature-requests/_discuss/thread/c7e6efb0/0709/attachment/propose-usage-pattern-change.patch) (949 Bytes; text/x-patch)


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** [feature-requests:#36] option for disallowing file overwrites**

**Status:** pending
**Group:** 
**Created:** Fri Mar 15, 2013 10:43 PM UTC by Jakub Wilk
**Last Updated:** Fri Jul 08, 2022 08:24 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?



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