Does this happen in all Linux systems? It’s weird
I always end up with these random values in my directory where I’m running bash scripts when things exit with various values.
In the most recent example I exit a script with 1 on error:
dockerfile="../../job-$image/Dockerfile"
if [ ! -f $dockerfile ]; then
echo "Dockerfile: $dockerfile does not exist"
exit 1
fi
I was testing to see if that code worked and when the file doesn’t exist and the code exits, I get a 1 in the directory where I’m executing the script. Meaning there’s a file named “1”. Why? I then have to delete it.
A few times I’ve had a character show up like ~ or *.
What happens when you run:
rm ~
or
rm *
Not good right?
I think that issue may have been fixed by have to remember to put quotes around those values to avoid deleting your home directory or all the files in the current directory.
Why do these weird things show up as files? Seems like a bug. Why would you ever really want this to happen?
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