From 6a49909b52b48592234da6a53bfe74ea34c302c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 14:24:24 -0700
Subject: CodingGuidelines: give an example for redirection

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 Documentation/CodingGuidelines | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

(limited to 'Documentation/CodingGuidelines')

diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
index 169b4358c9..11704fb84c 100644
--- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
+++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
@@ -61,6 +61,14 @@ For shell scripts specifically (not exhaustive):
    redirection target in a variable (as shown above), our code does so
    because some versions of bash issue a warning without the quotes.
 
+	(incorrect)
+	cat hello > world < universe
+	echo hello >$world
+
+	(correct)
+	cat hello >world <universe
+	echo hello >"$world"
+
  - We prefer $( ... ) for command substitution; unlike ``, it
    properly nests.  It should have been the way Bourne spelled
    it from day one, but unfortunately isn't.
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