I found that the sequence of characters \302\240 (octal) which appears in the file name is an unbreakable-space (UTF-8 hex sequence: 0xC2 0xA0).
Now I still don't know why shell command "echo > abc" creates a file name "\302\240abc". -- shell redirection and pipe create junk character in front of file name https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/620620 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs