Terminal, svn copy not working after multiple svn commands

Question

I recently executed a command similar to the following:

svn copy https://myRepo.com/projectFolder1/myProject.prj https://myRepo.com/projectFolder2 -m "copied myProject.prj to projectFolder2"&& svn update

and indeed the copy went through then the update too.

But every other command similar to that afterwards to copy more projects is presenting me with this symbol: ">" which i assume means I need to/ want to enter more stuff? and the actual command is not being executed.

Second command:

svn copy https://myRepo.com/projectFolder1/myProject2.prj https://myRepo.com/projectFolder2 -m "copied myProject2.prj to projectFolder2"&& svn update

I know to exit that I have to hit: cntl c. But my intent is to execute the copy commands. I could not find a solution to this (possibly because i don't know what to search for exactly). Am I doing something wrong or missing something here? Thank you

Answer 1

The issue has nothing to do executing multiple commands. Instead the issue is in TextEdit.app. Entering && after these quotes:" will result in your quotes changing to smart quotes which are “. So entering && after:

"

will result in

“&&

where the quotes are different if you look closely.

As a test, TextWrangler.app does not do this, just TextEdit.app, so it maybe a bug.

I am henceforth using TextWrangler to prepare my Terminal commands.