[GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #2509: d.mon output overwrite

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#2509: d.mon output overwrite
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 Reporter:  martinl      |       Owner:  martinl    
     Type:  defect       |      Status:  assigned   
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  7.0.0      
Component:  Display      |     Version:  unspecified
 Keywords:  d.mon        |    Platform:  Unspecified
      Cpu:  Unspecified  |  
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Comment(by wenzeslaus):

 This applies to any `d.*` command which is drawing something.

 Start GRASS and use in terminal:

 {{{
 d.rast elevation
 }}}

 `map.png` now contains image of elevation raster.

 {{{
 d.vect streams
 }}}

 `map.png` now contains image of streams vector.

 You don't need to call `d.mon` in order to write to a file named
 `map.png`. So, I'm not sure if what you are reporting, is an bug. It is
 perhaps just undocumented feature. The unchecked overwrite is a bit
 inconsistent but it also makes sense in this case. I recently learned
 about this behavior in [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-
 dev/2014-December/072250.html discussion related to r63227 - in
 grass/trunk/scripts] ([http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Re-GRASS-
 SVN-r63227-in-grass-trunk-scripts-d-correlate-d-out-file-d-rast-
 leg-d-redraw-d-shadedmap-d-t-td5175707.html nabble],
 [http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.grass.devel/61537 gmane]).

 I don't have any idea what should be the right behavior. It would be good
 to have different use cases to understand how it is actually used (or
 supposed to be used).

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