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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!uunet!boulder!rintintin.Colorado.EDU!nielsenc From: nielsenc@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (Christopher Nielsen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Unix Question: Unmatched " Followup-To: comp.unix.questions Date: 19 Aug 1994 22:56:54 GMT Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder Lines: 33 Sender: nielsenc@cs.colorado.edu Message-ID: <333dbm$ha9@lace.Colorado.EDU> References: <CuGrI1.6on@zimmer.csufresno.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: rintintin.colorado.edu Keywords: csh tcsh unmatched In article <CuGrI1.6on@zimmer.csufresno.edu>, Dan LeGate <dlegate@s1.csuhayward.edu> wrote: >In unix, is there a way to quickly find WHERE an Unmatched " >is in a file? It's very frustrating to get this message, but >not know where it is. The file that is giving me the error is >an alias file. When I type "source .aliases" it gives me the >message: Unmatched " >and then refuses to run anything in the file. >Thanks for any help or info you can give! Oh, and if this is >the wrong place to post this, I'm sorry - could you redirect >me to a more appropriate group? Go easy on me - just a beginner! :) > >Dan LeGate >dlegate@s1.csuhayward.edu >PRODIGY: FCSJ69A A better place to ask this question would be comp.unix.questions An easy way to find out which line the alias file is bombing on is to type 'alias' at the shell prompt to see how far along in the alias file csh/tcsh got. Just find the last alias that was read from the file; the next line will be the offending one. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Christopher Nielsen Bit Twiddler Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research (nielsenc@pippin.colorado.edu) University of Colorado at Boulder (nielsenc@nag.cs.colorado.edu) -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Christopher Nielsen Bit Twiddler Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research (nielsenc@pippin.colorado.edu) University of Colorado at Boulder (nielsenc@nag.cs.colorado.edu)