Mark Neyhart wrote on 07/23/2015 02:10 PM:
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
Mark,Thanks for the info, but it happens with commands which I don't pass any args/parameters to, and they are programs that came with the system or were installed later, and is pretty consistent. So, it appears that you are correct in your analysis, but I can't do anything about it!
I did discover that it happens "only" when running a login shell. I say "only" because it did appear to happen once when it wasn't a login shell but I couldn't repeat that condition.
Thanks for the help, Dennis