in reply to Re: How easy it is to make mistakes
in thread How easy it is to make mistakes

Well spotted.

*facepalms

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Re^3: How easy it is to make mistakes
by Your Mother (Archbishop) on May 23, 2017 at 13:24 UTC

    I spent several hours chasing a s/}/)/ once, editing and re-editing a script while the error message jumped around by dozens of line numbers. Two hours on a misspelling seems quite tame. :P

      I spent a long time once chasing an extra space at the end of a line in a sed script.

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