bug: cygwin/bash: echo > %ED does wrong thing

Mon May 31 21:10:00 GMT 1999

On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 11:57:14AM -0700, Steve Morris wrote:
>"echo >%ED" creates the wrong file. The %E gets expanded to "error 2".

>>Date: 1999年5月14日 23:59:39 -0400
>>To: Steve Morris <sjm@judgement.com>
>>Subject: Re: error string substituted for %E in filename
>>Message-ID: <19990514235939.A898@cygnus.com>
>>References: <199905150321.UAA25214@cygnus.com>
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>>>>On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 08:21:24PM -0700, Steve Morris wrote:
>>>Why does this program create a file named ".new.error 2D.1". That
>>>surely wasn't my intention and is croaking cvs client when checking
>>>out a file called "%ED.1". Obviously something thinks "%E" should be
>>>expanded to the current error string but in the open command? Not what
>>>I would have expected.
>>>>>>Do I have to quote % to work around this?
>>>>It's a bug in 20.1, fixed in later snapshots.
>>>>cgf

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