Re: echo test >& "quote'test"

[Chet Ramey]

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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