In my forays into the mysteries of Fortran fifty years ago, mistakes in the
coding often generated
error messages that had no discernible relation to the mistakes, but instead
pointed to their
consequences. That's what I suspect is happening as a consequence of
attempting to use the command
line to edit HTML.
The attached file has five versions of the offending script and the bash
responses:
(1) Is the script that was the first that I tried, with escaped dots; ")" was
flagged.
(2) All the dots are escaped; also the single quotes; "(" was flagged.
(3) Target file was altered to eliminate the p's; so was the script; ")" was
flagged.
(4) Target file still altered to eliminate the p's; single quotes escaped;
"(" was flagged.
(5) All the HTML-sensitive characters were translated; `/\<' (That's "
