On 4/8/24 9:37 PM, squeaky wrote:
Bash Version: 5.2 Patch Level: 21 Release Status: release
Description:
Running
echo test >& "quote'test"
should create the file "quote'test", but it creates "quotetest"
instead.
Repeat-By: echo test >& "quote'test"
Thanks for the report. This is specific to this form of redirection. The
issue is that the WORD following the >& is expanded multiple times, since
it has to be expanded once to determine whether it's a number, filename,
`-', or empty. Once it's expanded, and known to be a filename, it shouldn't
be expanded again.
Chet
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
