Mark Neyhart wrote on 07/23/2015 02:10 PM:
On 07/23/2015 08:45 AM, Dennis Wicks wrote:
Greetings,
Frequently when I run a command in a terminal window (Debian 8.1 Xfce)
I get a bunch of errors.
/bin/bash: _parse_usage: line 16: syntax error near unexpected token
`('
This will happen if you are running a command with an unescaped ( in
the parameters. It may work to enclose the whole parameter string in
double quotes. Or escape any ( and ) with a leading \. For example:
mycommand "(34)"
mycommand stuff \(34\)
Mark Neyhart
Mark,
Thanks for the info, but it happens with commands which I
don't pass any args/parameters to, and they are programs
that came with the system or were installed later, and is
pretty consistent. So, it appears that you are correct in
your analysis, but I can't do anything about it!
I did discover that it happens "only" when running a login
shell. I say "only" because it did appear to happen once
when it wasn't a login shell but I couldn't repeat that
condition.
Thanks for the help,
Dennis
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