On Sun, Sep 05, 2021 at 09:38:34AM -0400, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > There's also that thing about how terminals will interpret the > different types of quotes (dumb/typewriter/ASCII versus > typographic/curly/smart) very literally. I experienced THAT fail > firsthand and now try to remember to plug anything I copy into a plain > text editor before then recopying over to a terminal.
Quotes matter to the shell, not to the terminal. And the only kinds of quotes that the shell cares about are ASCII single and double quotes (' and " respectively). Unicode curly quotes are not considered quotes by any shell. They're just random un-special characters, like q or 5 or ñ. > Am wondering if, am more like hoping that this quotation marks part of > it would have stood out when I research how to further customize my > own setup. This will be a priceless personalization if I can > eventually coerce it to say "(debootstrap) chroot" in place of some of > the characters there. Shh, don't tell me how. Lead a fish to water, > yada-yada. :) Look for "chroot" in your ~/.bashrc and see how it's currently being done. Make sure you understand each command, and what it does.