This is why writing scripts/tools for ops work is helpful.

You can do `alias mv='mv -n'` or similar but then you have to hope everyone is using the same shell prompt, etc.

Even if your tiny script is just:

``` #!/usr/bin/env bash mv -n recordings/$1 public/$1 ```

you’ve removed some of the human tendency towards occasional typos and written something move defensive.

In my experience as an SRE people set way to high a bar for what should be tooling or “automation”. As soon as you make something software then you can iterate on it, or not as it makes sense.

If you keep on typing one off commands then the humans need to be correct every time.