How to say this in Bash?

[Matthew Seaman]

Unga wrote:
> --- On Mon, 5/25/09, Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:

> Here is what happens in bash shell:
> $ echo "${X}" > ${Z}
> bash: ${Z}: ambiguous redirect

So, what's the value of ${Z}?  Unless that expands to something that
could be a valid file name you'll get an error message of some sort.

hint: add

  set -x

somewhere towards the top of the script and it will print a lot of debug
output as it runs.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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