Occasionally I make a mistake in my shell that results in there being a > for the prompt instead of the normal $.
Today I accidentally left off a " in a sed command,
Code:
sed s/\"//g" infile > outfile
and then I get
Code:
$ sed s/\"//g" infile > outfile
>
>
I have never figured out how to get out of this and no matter what I enter in the shell, I just get another >. I end up having to close the shell and start again, losing all my history, etc.
A search of this has not turned up anything useful, I guess since the search just triggers infor about redirects, so I was wondering if someone here can fill me in as to what this is and if there is a way to get out of it.
LMHmedchem
Last edited by Scott; 06-05-2013 at 02:47 PM..
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