Re: t7005-editor.sh failure

From: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 26, 2018, 13:23 UTC
Message-ID: <CAN0heSrajoYrkta3+uZJnH32mWsL7vKiYYmEzZ3h+GAeuMQPSA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cR8KyeihQbUbSP7Awz+NTbf8c3r-ZE9w2wjnvvEpU0gDg@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 at 13:59, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> wrote:

> This description of the behavior is misleading (actually, actively
> wrong).

Hmm, that's bad, my apologies.

Show 5 quoted lines

>     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.

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> 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