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Overwriting is a process of replacing content with other content in place. It can be physically replaced on storage, or overridden with newer version of content type.

Overwriting is a process of replacing content with other content in place. It can be physically replaced on storage, or overridden with newer version of content type.
Not to be confused with Override in Object Oriented Programming.

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How do I force "git pull" to overwrite local files?

How do I force an overwrite of local files on a git pull? My local repository contains a file of the same filename as on the server. error: Untracked working tree file 'example.txt' would be overwritten by merge
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How to force cp to overwrite without confirmation

I'm trying to use the cp command and force an overwrite. I have tried cp -rf /foo/* /bar, but I am still prompted to confirm each overwrite.
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Overwrite or override

Should we refer to "replacing an implementation" as overwriting or overriding? Is it language-specific?
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How to overwrite existing files in batch?

The following command copies and moves a file but I also need it to overwrite the file it's replacing. xcopy /s c:\mmyinbox\test.doc C:\myoutbox
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Read and overwrite a file in Python

Currently I'm using this: f = open(filename, 'r+') text = f.read() text = re.sub('foobar', 'bar', text) f.seek(0) f.write(text) f.close() But the problem is that the old file is larger than the new file. So I end up with a new file that has a part…
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Python - Move and overwrite files and folders

I have a directory, 'Dst Directory', which has files and folders in it and I have 'src Directory' which also has files and folders in it. What I want to do is move the contents of 'src Directory' to 'Dst Directory' and overwrite anyfiles that exist…
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How to overwrite a folder if it already exists when creating it with makedirs?

The following code allows me to create a directory if it does not already exist. dir = 'path_to_my_folder' if not os.path.exists(dir): os.makedirs(dir) The folder will be used by a program to write text files into that folder. But I want to…
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Python, Overriding an inherited class method

I have two classes, Field and Background. They look a little bit like this: class Field( object ): def __init__( self, a, b ): self.a = a self.b = b self.field = self.buildField() def buildField( self ): …
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Python: How to force overwriting of files when using setup.py install (distutil)

I am using distutil to install my python code using python setup.py install I run into problems when I want to install an older branch of my code over a new one: setup.py install won't overwrite older files. A work around is touching (touch…
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Overwriting txt file in java

The code I've written is supposed to overwrite over the contents of the selected text file, but it's appending it. What am I doing wrong exactly? File fnew=new File("../playlist/"+existingPlaylist.getText()+".txt"); String source =…
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How to 'update' or 'overwrite' a python list

aList = [123, 'xyz', 'zara', 'abc'] aList.append(2014) print aList which produces o/p [123, 'xyz', 'zara', 'abc', 2014] What should be done to overwrite/update this list. I want the o/p to be [2014, 'xyz', 'zara', 'abc']
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How can I overwrite/print over the current line in Windows command line?

On Unix, I can either use \r (carriage return) or \b (backspace) to overwrite the current line (print over text already visible) in the shell. Can I achieve the same effect in a Windows command line from a Python script? I tried the curses module…
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Can Gulp overwrite all src files?

Let's say I want to replace the version number in a bunch of files, many of which live in subdirectories. I will pipe the files through gulp-replace to run the regex-replace function; but I will ultimately want to overwrite all the original…
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Append to a File with fstream Instead of Overwriting

I'm trying to create a basic highscore system for a project I'm working on. The problem I'm having is, although I write the names into my main they just overwrite the previous. Currently I have this: void ManagePoint::saveScore(string Name, int…
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How to write data to a text file without overwriting the current data

I can't seem to figure out how to write data to a file without overwriting it. I know I can use File.appendtext but I am not sure how to plug that into my syntax. Here is my code: TextWriter tsw = new StreamWriter(@"C:\Hello.txt"); //Writing text…
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