On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 11:01:46AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
echo 2>"c\nd"

Did you intend to write the number "2" to a file, or did you intend to
redirect stderr?
...
The space after the 2 is extremely significant, and $'...' is how you
create strings (filenames, etc.) with control characters in them.

Oh, I am sorry.
Thank you for the explanation.

Best regards,
Hans

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