What happening when I type a single quote on the command line

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

As bash told you, it was waiting for you to close the quote. You have just
proven that whoever said that there are no dumb questions was wrong. Then
again, unless a question has a mind of its own, it can't possess
intelligence.

On Sun, 03 Apr 2005 19:32:28 -0400, Eric Dunbar wrote:

> As per the subject, what is happening when I type a single quote
> followed by enter? I typed a few things, started playing with
> control-letter combos and typed control-d to get the unexpected EOF
> error.
> 
> I get the following:
> 
> [root at localhost logs]# '
>> 
>> 
>> hello
>> asdlfkj
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -bash: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
> -bash: syntax error: unexpected end of file
> 
> Curiosity killed the cat.
> 
> Eric.
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