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Beware of digits before the redirection operator

May 17, 2006 May 17, 2006 05/17/06

Raymond Chen

If you want to put the string "Meet at 2" into the file "schedule", you might be tempted to use If you try this, however, you'll see the string "Meet at" on the screen and the "schedule" file will be blank. [Typo fixed, 10am] What happened? A digit immediately before a redirection operator modifies which stream the redirection operator...