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The /Y operator on windows forces it to overwrite without confirmation /-Y forces confirmation and there is no documented way to force failure when a file exists already.


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Re^7: A DWIM too far?
by QM (Parson) on Jun 18, 2004 at 18:48 UTC
    I thought I got it to work under XP. Here on Win2K, I agree with you.

    Ah well, I think it's just broken across the board.

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Re^7: A DWIM too far?
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jun 18, 2004 at 19:35 UTC

    Don't use either? 

    P:\test\data>type hello.dat
Hello world

P:\test\data>type goodbye.dat
Goodbye cruel world

P:\test\data>rename hello.dat goodbye.dat
A duplicate file name exists, or the file
cannot be found.

P:\test\data>type hello.dat
Hello world

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