Greg Black wrote:
>
> Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
>
> | I've tried a number of syntax-colouring editors, to no avail. The quotes
> | (single, double, and back) *are* balanced, according to everything I've
> | thrown the script at. That's why I'm more interested in something that
> | can actually parse Bourne shell syntax (quiet Terry - I *know* what
> | you're going to say) and dump out what it thinks the parse tree looks
> | like. The problem isn't with the quotes being unbalanced, it's something
> | else that's making the shell ignore one (or more) of those quotes.
>
> Surely the simple thing is to put an exit statement in the
> middle of the script and see which half has the problem? Move
> the exit statement forwards or backwards in a binary search
> until the problem leaps out and hits you in the face.
Or simply set -x at the beginning of the script?
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