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I never had this issue until updating to the 2018.3 versions of my JetBrains products. Every time I open a terminal window in WebStorm or CLion I am confronted with:

cp: overwrite '/home/zack/.WebStorm2018.3/config/terminal/history/history-'? 

When I open an additional window I get:

cp: overwrite '/home/zack/.WebStorm2018.3/config/terminal/history/history-2'?

Peeking into the indicated directory reveals a number of zero-length files that is equivalent to how many terminals I have opened.

-rw-r--r-- 1 zack zack 0 Dec  6 16:14 history-
-rw-r--r-- 1 zack zack 0 Dec  6 16:18 history-2
-rw-r--r-- 1 zack zack 0 Dec  6 16:18 history-3

These files do remain there after I close the program, but even if I delete them, once I open up WebStorm again, the files are re-created and all the terminals that were open prompt me about over-writing the files yet again.

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Do you have cp aliases defined in your .bashrc? Looks similar to IDEA-202523 that is fixed in 2018.3.1