On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 at 13:59, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This description of the behavior is misleading (actually, actively > wrong). Hmm, that's bad, my apologies. > echo foo bar >cow > echo >cow foo bar > echo foo >cow bar > > That is, they all create a file named "cow" with content "foo bar". Somehow I knew that, as in "I've seen that before", but I guess I've never thought about it long enough to really incorporate it. > So, in your example: > > echo space >/foo/t/trash directory.t7005-editor/.git/COMMIT_EDITMSG > > what is actually happening is that it is creating a file named > "/foo/t/trash" with content "space > directory.t7005-editor/.git/COMMIT_EDITMSG". Thanks for clarifying. > As for the "ambiguous redirect" diagnostic, that seems to be Bash > trying to be helpful in reporting what is likely a programming error > (that is, forgetting to double-quote the expansion). I see that SZEDER has posted some interesting reading. I'll make sure I understand this better before coming back to this later today. Thanks Martin
