[Docutils-develop] [docutils:feature-requests] #36 prevent accidential file overwrites by wildcard expansion

[Günter M. <mi...@us...>]

- **status**: pending --> open-fixed
- **Comment**:

The second positional argument for the destination is dropped in [r10348] . Now, more than one positional argument will result in an error.
Use the `--output` and `-o` options or output redirection (`>`) to specify an output file.



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**[feature-requests:#36] prevent accidential file overwrites by wildcard expansion**

**Status:** open-fixed
**Group:** Default
**Created:** Fri Mar 15, 2013 10:43 PM UTC by Jakub Wilk
**Last Updated:** Tue Apr 29, 2025 07:47 PM 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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