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The nocolobber variable in the shell is designed to prevent accidental overwriting of existing files when using redirection operators (like >). However, it does not apply to commands like cp or mv, which are external programs that handle file operations independently of the shell's built-in features. To avoid overwriting files with these commands, you can use options like -n for cp or mv which explicitly prevent overwriting an existing file.

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