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ask for comfirmation when file is replaced using a redirection

I'm a careless terminal driver scared of accidentally deleting files, hence using some aliases like alias rm='rm -i' for rm, mv, cp. How can I get a similar confirmation behavior for file redirections ...
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Grep alias - line numbers unless it's in a pipeline

I want to create a bash alias for grep that adds line numbers: alias grep='grep -n' But that, of course, adds line numbers to pipelines as well. Most of the time (and no exceptions come to mind) I ...