On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 06:47:41PM +1000, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > On 17/6/24 14:20, David Wright wrote: > > All the aliases that lie textually after the one with the missing ' > > will remain undefined, so you can use bisection to locate where in > > the file problem lies. > > If I didn't use a syntax matching editor this may have easily been my > problem.
Those aren't trustworthy with shell syntax. Shell syntax is an absolute nightmare, and *nothing* implements it correctly except the shell itself, and even then there are often bugs. > This is the line that was being reported as the incomplete alias, and a few > that follow it: > > > alias srb='source /home/keith/.bashrc' > #alias srz='source ~/.zshrc' The error is probably somewhere else. Do you still *have* the file which contains the error? Does it still *produce* the error message if you source it? If so: source the file, and *show us* the error. The whole thing. And then if you want anyone to help you look for the error, you'll have to provide a way for us to see your file. Either by attaching it here (if it's small enough!), or by uploading it to a web server and providing a URL that lets us download it.
