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Possible bug with redirect.
From: |
Rikke Rendtorff |
Subject: |
Possible bug with redirect. |
Date: |
Mon, 1 Nov 2021 16:23:32 +0100 |
I'm very new to linux, so I apologize if I'm reporting a non-bug.
I wanted to do this: date > `date +"%Y-%m-%d"`.txt to put the date into a
file called 2021-10-16.txt
But I accidentally forgot the backticks, so it became date > date
+"%Y-%m-%d".txt. And it created a file called "date" and it put the string
"2021-10-16.txt" into it.
I can understand why the file is called "date", but I got somewhat confused
about how the content became the '+"%Y-%m-%d".txt' part.
It seems that the date +"%Y-%m-%d".txt is the command part with the one
parameter.
So we have: date redirect-part +"%Y-%m-%d".txt
If I wanted the result that I got, I'd expect the command to be: date
+"%Y-%m-%d".txt redirect-part.
I went to the https://linuxmint.com community website and joined their IRC
chat to see if they had an explanation and they told me it may be a bug,
since they couldn't reproduce it for other commands.
Regards,
Rikke Rendtorff
P.S. They also told me I may be one of those users that gets myself into
trouble by using commands in ways that no sane person would ever think of.
So, at least there's that :)
- Possible bug with redirect.,
Rikke Rendtorff <=