Re: bash shows an error message about unpaired quotes, but they are paired

[Chet Ramey]

On 3/26/18 3:54 PM, f.de.kruijf@gmail.com wrote:

> run 'sed -i "6a\find /srv/cowrie/log/ -mtime +7 -name \'cowrie.*\' -delete" 
> cowrietest'

Just so you understand how the quoting works here: you can't escape single
quotes with backslashes inside a single-quoted string. The \'cowrite.*\'
ends the first single-quoted string and inserts a single quote into the
command, since the backslash acts as an escape character in an unquoted
context. The double quote after -delete starts a new double-quoted string,
which is not terminated when the shell reaches the end of the script.

> ./aa.sh: line 16: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'
> ./aa.sh: line 17: syntax error: unexpected end of file


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