So, today, was writing a BASH utility. As per normal, I have a commit-time check that runs it through shellchecker. That test came up green. However, when I ran the script if finished by complaining:

XXXXXX.sh: line 290: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'

Naturally, my reaction was something along the lines of:

I mean, shellchecker's usually pretty damned good about finding trivial flubs like that. So, Googled about to see if there was an easy way to double-check things. My search was fruitful – I found this cute, little snippet:

| tr -cd '"\n' | awk 'length%2==1 {print NR, $0}'

I catted my script to that pipe and, for better or worse, it agreed with shellchecker that all my single- and double-quotes were properly paired.