There used to be a search engine called SymbolHound whose entire shtick was to not ignore special characters in the query. Unfortunately it looks like it's gone now, seemingly without so much as a farewell. Their posts just stopped.

It seems to be part of my muscle memory.

I likely got that memorized from the time that I wrote a shell (/bin/sh) tutorial back in the day.

Knowing about some of these shell bits would be useful for someone learning about C++.

For my beginner programming class, I have them use a script `compile` which handles compilation and linking, while also enabling enabling all the warnings/errors I think are helpful, and also doing the above redirection. An absolute beginner doesn't gain anything from invoking `g++` directly.