# Redirect stdout quoting problem cpp
**URL:** https://forum.codecrafters.io/t/redirect-stdout-quoting-problem-cpp/15642
**Category:** Challenges
**Tags:** challenge:shell
**Created:** [December 9, 2025, 2:25pm UTC](https://forum.codecrafters.io/t/redirect-stdout-quoting-problem-cpp/15642 "2025-12-09T14:25:25Z")
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### Author:  [@andrew-golarson](https://forum.codecrafters.io/u/andrew-golarson)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2025, 2:25pm UTC](https://forum.codecrafters.io/t/redirect-stdout-quoting-problem-cpp/15642/1 "2025-12-09T14:25:25Z")
I’m stuck on Stage **Redirect stdout** #jv1
Do I need to implement quoting for this to work? Idk if I messed up the order of the challenge, because it says I have to first do the redirecting.
Here are my logs:
```auto
remote: [your-program] $ ls -1 /tmp/fox > /tmp/ant/cow.md
remote: [your-program] $ cat /tmp/ant/cow.md
remote: [your-program] grape
remote: [your-program] pear
remote: [your-program] strawberry
remote: [tester::#JV1] ✓ Received redirected file content
remote: [your-program] $ echo 'Hello Emily' 1> /tmp/ant/fox.md
remote: [your-program] $ cat /tmp/ant/fox.md
remote: [your-program] 'Hello Emily'
remote: [tester::#JV1] ^ Line does not match expected value.
remote: [tester::#JV1] Expected: "Hello Emily"
remote: [tester::#JV1] Received: "'Hello Emily'"
remote: [your-program] $
remote: [tester::#JV1] Assertion failed.
remote: [tester::#JV1] Test failed
```
And here’s a snippet of my echo implementation:
```cpp
else if(command_name == "echo"){
bool erase_one_more_space = false;
std::string temp{};
std::string message;
while (ss >> temp) {
if (temp == ">") {
std_to_file = true;
break;
}else if(temp == "1>"){
std_to_file = true;
erase_one_more_space = true;
break;
}else{
if(!message.empty()){
message += " ";
}
message += temp;
}
}
if(!std_to_file){
std::cout << command.substr(5) << '\n';
}else{
std::string std_filename;
if(ss >> std_filename){
}else{
std::cerr << "No filename provided";
continue;
}
std::ofstream file(std_filename);
file << message << '\n';
file.close();
}
```
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### Author:  [@senevoldsen](https://forum.codecrafters.io/u/senevoldsen)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2025, 3:05pm UTC](https://forum.codecrafters.io/t/redirect-stdout-quoting-problem-cpp/15642/3 "2025-12-09T15:05:53Z")
You are just outputting the raw command past the first 5 chars. You are not parsing the arguments to echo, but are simply outputting it verbatim: `echo ‘123’ “456”` to `'123’ “456”` which is wrong.
The challenge as I recall have you parsing arguments in the very beginning so you might have skipped around.
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### Author:  [@andrew-golarson](https://forum.codecrafters.io/u/andrew-golarson)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2025, 3:25pm UTC](https://forum.codecrafters.io/t/redirect-stdout-quoting-problem-cpp/15642/4 "2025-12-09T15:25:50Z")
Oh okay, thank you, maybe I misunderstood something in initial implementation;
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.codecrafters.io/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2025, 11:50pm UTC](https://forum.codecrafters.io/t/redirect-stdout-quoting-problem-cpp/15642/5 "2025-12-14T23:50:28Z")
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