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 :)