> On Jul 14, 2017, at 10:08 AM, A.J. Bonnema <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Thank you for your response. I think I found the cause. In my attempts I have 
> submitted the command ack b->cslv without the required quotes because I often 
> call ack without quoting the question. This has caused bash to take over the 
> last part ( >cslv ) and create a file called cslv. When I saw that file, I 
> immediately new what I had done wrong. I was too focussed on the c-syntax to 
> realise what was wrong at the time.
> 
> I should have escaped the > with a backslash, or at least used quotes. Lesson 
> learned and sorry to have bothered you all. 
> 
Not a problem.  Sometimes just explaining the problem can have value of its 
own.  :-)

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