force flag for hugo new (not hugo new site)

[DanielRuf]

We already have --force for hugo new site but it seems this flag is not available for hugo new to create content.

I have looked at all the issues there and I can not see any relevant issue or PR:
https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/search?p=15&q=force&type=issues

I have the following usecase:

A specific content type as template. ENV_VAR=value hugo new my-new-file-name -k my-template-type to populate the frontmatter with custom keys and values and create the new file.

But if I want to update the content in a specific environment I want to run ENV_VAR=other-value hugo new my-new-file-name -k my-template-type to recreate it for compilation.

And if my template-file changes, then I want to just run it with the old ENV_VAR=value hugo new my-new-file-name -k my-template-type but get the new template in the resulting file.

Currently this does not work as Hugo says "file-name already exists".
Even the --force option for sites does not overwrite files but only folders. See https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/blob/master/commands/new_site.go#L89 (seems to only add new files but not overwrite existing files).

Maybe such an option to overwrite files should be added for the site command too.

My current workaround is to do a rm file-name and then run ENV_VAR=other-value hugo new my-new-file-name -k my-template-type again.

[onedrawingperday]

Yes, a way to overwrite existing files with hugo new would be very useful and it has been bugging me also for a while.

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