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

[Felix Jodoin]

I am not trying to start a flame.
Hey now, in my opinion the only dumb question is the one of being annoying. If a person can take the time to copy and paste the syntax and then write up an email, USUALLY (with exception of spammers) you should take the time to at least reply or at least not insult the person. After all, the Open Source community is what makes Linux and all of it's programs tick. If we loose the strong community, because noone can ask questions, or they feel too timid to file a bug report, it will fail. That is why Windows is failing. We do not want to take that route.
Again, I'm just stating my opinion. I'm not trying to start an argument or anything.
-Felix J

From: Daniel Gimpelevich <daniel at gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us>
Date: Sunday, April 3, 2005 6:51 pm
Subject: Re: What happening when I type a single quote on the command line

> 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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