Take care!

Take care what name you give to the file copy.

If you chose the name of a file that already exists it will be overwritten by the new copy!

To avoid this ...

Either:

1. Always use the cp command together with its -i option.

This will prompt you for confirmation whenever the copy would overwrite an existing file.

or:

2. Create a command alias for the cp command.

This will make sure that you are always prompted for confirmation whenever the copy would overwrite an existing file.