sudo echo"# FYI quotes(") must be escaped with \ like \"
👆 that is not a comment. That is a command that says to echo the text “# FYI quotes(” and then to do ) must be escaped like \ \" which is invalid syntax.
I assume that startup script is reading the contents of the file and trying to echo them into another file? i.e., using the original file as a template, but is not escaping the input, hence the error — which you’re lucky that’s the problem you’re encountering and not something actually destructive like sudo echo"# foo" && rm -rf /*.
It’s all good. If you’re using bash and readline to read the file, you can use sudo echo${INPUT@Q} (assuming your variable is named $INPUT) to have bash escape things like the quotes and other characters that could get you into trouble.
sudo echo "# FYI quotes(") must be escaped with \ like \"👆 that is not a comment. That is a command that says to echo the text “# FYI quotes(” and then to do
) must be escaped like \ \"which is invalid syntax.I assume that startup script is reading the contents of the file and trying to echo them into another file? i.e., using the original file as a template, but is not escaping the input, hence the error — which you’re lucky that’s the problem you’re encountering and not something actually destructive like
sudo echo "# foo" && rm -rf /*.dsygraphia, I meant to say escape the quotes(you can see that because the comment wasn’t about comments but was instead about quotes)
It’s all good. If you’re using bash and readline to read the file, you can use
sudo echo ${INPUT@Q}(assuming your variable is named $INPUT) to have bash escape things like the quotes and other characters that could get you into trouble.