Tim Henigan <tim.henigan@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > + - Redirection operators should be written with space before, but > + no space after them. For example: > + 'echo test >$file' is preferred over > + 'echo test > $file' > + If you are using a $file placeholder, then we would need to show readers that they need to be enclosed in dq to prevent some versions of bash from giving us a false warning, and explicitly say why. $ bash bash$ file='/var/tmp/f i l e' bash$ >$file bash: $file: ambiguous redirect bash$ >"$file" bash$ ls -1 "$file" /var/tmp/f i l e Adding something like this after your two line examples, after updating them to use "$file" instead, should be sufficient: Note that even though it is not required by POSIX to double quote the redirection target in a variable like the above example, our code does so because some versions of bash issue an warning unless we do. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html