.bashrc question

[Karl Auer]

On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 04:46 +0000, David Armour wrote:
> bash: /home/dave3/.bashrc: line 72: unexpected EOF while looking for
> [...]
>  
> 72      eval "`dircolors -b`"			## missing '"'??
> [...]
> I can't see a missing `"' at line 72, nor any obvious reason why bash 
> would find the end of the .bashrc file at line 90 'unexpected' in any way. 
> Can anybody? Am I missing something obvious? (Wouldn't be the first time...)

I'm guessing that the dircolors program is returning something that
contains either a double or single quote, or possibly a newline (which
would orphan the starting double quote).

Regards, K.
 
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