Dquotation issue in terminal commands on my MacBook Air

if I run a code or a command on my terminal, it show dquote in every command, like am trying to install homebrew in my Mac, It does not work



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MacBook Air 13″, macOS 12.7

Posted on Jan 29, 2025 5:49 PM

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Jan 31, 2025 10:42 PM in response to aluyiogho

It helps if you would either copy & paste the command from the Terminal window & its output, or post a screenshot of the Terminal window showing that information so we can see what you are seeing.


Also, are you copy & pasting the commands from some source? If so, what is the source? Or is this issue occurring when you manually type the commands?


FYI, be very cautions installing third party package managers such as Homebrew. Homebrew has been known to break some users system configuration settings. Plus if any Homebrew packages contain the same command line utilities already provided by macOS, then things become even more complicated....such as which one will be called by macOS or even by your own apps or Homebrew apps?


Also, the command line is very unforgiving with no safety nets so be extremely careful and make sure you have good & frequent backups (you already should have frequent & regular backups if you have any important data). Keep in mind even one mistyped character can change what a command will do including even destroying data or breaking macOS.


FYI, I had no idea what you meant by "dquote". It really helps to write things out unless an abbreviation is extremely common & well known. If it wasn't for @bhanu5567's reply I would not have though of it meaning "double quotes".

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