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I have been noticing some strange behaviour when I type characters like ' or the backtick. Whenever I type it, the > symbol shows up everytime I type something, and everything I type seemingly does not do anything. But when I type the character again, it returns to normal.

user@debian:~$ '
> command
> '
-bash:
command
: command not found
user@debian:~$

What is this feature? As far as I know, the man page for bash did not say anything about this

Debian Jessie

John K
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  • This question is a duplicate, but to explain shortly. It's what you get when you are supposed to continue a command, for example if you type `"` you should type another `"` to close that. An example is if you want to echo mutliple lines, you would type `echo " (newline) foo"`. – DisplayName Dec 09 '15 at 14:08
  • @DisplayName Yes, that answered it. I flagged my question as a duplicate – John K Dec 09 '15 at 14:13

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