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
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